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1. Herbert Hoover
   Herbert Hoover was in the right place at the wrong time. He could well have been a good - if not great - president had he served at another time. His ideological beliefs were such that he could well have launched the country in a more progressive direction than his predecessors in the 1920s had not the Great Depression intervened. He was far more committed to active government than either Calvin Coolidge or Warren Harding. However, as the presiding chief executive when the Depression began, he has received the blame for the Depression from his fellow countrymen both at the time and from subsequent generations. While he really was a "progressive" in his own way and probably did more to end the Depression than any preceding president in previous economic collapses, what he did failed to alleviate the situation and therefore he gained a reputation that was only partially deserved.
2. Hoover -- Herbert Hoover
   After graduation, Hoover worked for a San Francisco engineering firm, and later took a job with an English mining company to run their gold mines in Australia and China. At age 27, Hoover was made a partner in the company, and began to travel the world, visiting the company's mines and searching for new ones. Hoover traveled around the world five times in five years. The Hoovers had two sons during that time, Herbert Jr. and Allan.
3. Herbert Hoover -- Philadelphia Quakers
   Herbert Hoover's parents died when he was young, so he went to live with his uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, a Quaker. He once instructed young Hoover, "Turn your cheek once, but if he smites you again, then punch him."
4. Herbert Hoover -- Engineering
   Long before Herbert Hoover became involved in politics he was an engineer. He was trained as a mining engineer and had a full and very sucessful career in a variety of international engineering projects. At the time Mr. Hoover practiced engineering, most areas of engineering were Civil Engineering. Mr. Hoover's own field of mining engineering is certainly very closely aligned with Civil Engineering even today. Here is what Mr. Hoover said about the profession of engineering.
5. Herbert Hoover -- West Branch
   Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10, 1874 to Jesse and Hulda Hoover. His father worked as a blacksmith and farm-implement dealer and his mother was a very pious woman who eventually adopted Quakerism. Hoover's idyllic childhood was shattered at the age of six when both of his parents died within a three month period. The rest of his youth was spent with his maternal uncle and aunt, John and Laura Minthorn, who took him into their home in Newberg, Oregon.
6. Herbert Hoover -- War
   By war's end, Herbert Hoover was not only famous for feeding Europe. He was ... celebrated as the man who had persuaded millions of his countrymen to "hooverize," sacrificing their own comforts so that desperate Allied populations might survive.
7. Herbert Hoover -- United States
   Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States of America. He invented vacuum cleaners. Many believe that he was the ideal person to make vacuum cleaners in his own image, because he sucked so much.
8. Herbert Hoover -- White House
   Fun Fact: Parties at the White House during Herbert Hoover's term were big events. As many as 4,000 invitations to a gala would be loaded on trucks and hand delivered around Washington.
9. Herbert Hoover -- New Deal
   Hoover went to Australia in 1897 as an employee of Beswick, Moreing and Company, a London Mining engineering consulting firm. It was in Australia that he made his name as a geologist/mining engineer. In August and September 1905, Herbert Hoover visited the mines at Broken Hill, NSW Australia. There was considerable zinc in the Broken Hill lead-silver ore, but it could not be recovered and was lost to the tailings. Hoover devised a practical and profitable method to use the then-new froth floatation process to treat these tailings and recover the zinc.[3]
10. Herbert Hoover -- Presidents
    In the 1932 campaign Hoover warned that the program of Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened a "radical departure" from the American way of life. His efforts to cooperate with the president-elect came to naught, because Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust" correctly suspected that Hoover wanted to commit the new administration to a continuation of his own policies. When Hoover left office in March 1933, nearly the entire United States economy was paralyzed.

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