Topic Summary (from www.ssa.gov): president hoover, circa 1930. Photo by Underwood and Underwood, courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-92155DLC).

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• president hoover: president hoover , circa 1930 (from www.ssa.gov)
• Herbert Hoover: Today the Birthplace Cottage, along with other historic buildings associated with his early childhood in West Branch, is the centerpiece of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (from www.nps.gov)
• Herbert Clark Hoover: Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10 , 1874 October 20 , 1964 ), the thirty-first President of the United States (1929 1933), was a mining engineer and humanitarian administrator (from en.wikipedia.org)
• United States: After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration (from www.whitehouse.gov)
• United States Secretary: As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge , he promoted economic modernization (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Great Depression: That position was challenged by the Great Depression , which began in 1929 , the first year of his presidency (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Miller Center: Below are selections from the Miller Center 's Herbert Clark Hoover speech collection (from www.millercenter.virginia.edu)
• West Branch: Born: August 10, 1874; West Branch , Iowa.. (from www.pbs.org)
• Hoover Dam: At the official beginning of the project on September 17 , 1930 , President Hoover 's Secretary of the Interior Ray L. Wilbur , announced that the new Dam on the Colorado River would be named Hoover Dam to honor the then President of the United States (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Boulder Dam: The Dam , originally planned for a location in Boulder Canyon, was relocated to Black Canyon for better impoundment, but was still known as the Boulder Dam project (from en.wikipedia.org)

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