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 Hoover, Herbert
Jesse. Jesse Clark Hoover was born in 1846 in West Milton, Ohio. He died in 1880 at the age of 34 and the future president had little memory of his father. Hoover's mother, Huldah, died when she was 35. They are both buried in West Branch, Iowa.
Stanford. Hoover was a member of the first Stanford class, when the university was created in 1891.
Geology. Hoover earned an A.B. degree from Stanford in geology in May 1895.
| After graduating from college, Hoover found himself in the middle of which conflict? | Herbert Hoover
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Boxer Rebellion. Hoover was in China in 1900 during the time of the Boxer Rebellion. He helped defend the foreigners in Tientsin during the conflict.
| The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Jr. and Allen. In what city were they both born? | Herbert Hoover
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London. Herbert Jr. was born in 1903, Allen in 1907....both in London.
| Hoover became well known when he organized relief efforts for what country after World War I? | Herbert Hoover
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Belgium. The Commission for the Relief of Belgium, which Hoover headed from 1914 to 1919, distributed over 34 million tons of supplies to war refugees after World War I.
| Hoover held what cabinet post in both the Harding and Coolidge administration? | Herbert Hoover
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Commerce. Hoover was the secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928, when he was replaced by William Whiting.
| The Republicans held their 1928 national convention where? | Herbert Hoover
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Kansas City. Hoover won the Republican nomination on the first ballot at their convention held in Kansas City.
| Who was the Democratic party's nominee for president in 1928? | Herbert Hoover
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Al Smith. Smith won the nomination on the second ballot at the Democratic convention in Houston, after missing by only 10 votes on the first ballot. Davis was the Democratic nominee in 1924 and Cox in 1920. Robinson was Smith's vice-presidential running mate in the 1928 election.
| During the Hoover administration, the doctrine that established US policy that it would not recognize territorial changes brought on by aggression was named after whom? | Herbert Hoover
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Stimson. The doctrine was named after Hoover's secretary of state, Henry Stimson, who would later serve as the secretary of war in FDR's administration.
| Due to the Great Depression, at what figure did the Dow Jones bottom out during Hoover's time in office? | Herbert Hoover
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41. After a peak figure of 381 in 1929, the Dow bottomed out at 41 in 1932. It would not reach the 381 figure again for over 30 years.
| The London Naval Treaty, agreed upon during Hoover's term in 1930, allowed for which nation to increase the size of their navy? | Herbert Hoover
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Japan. The treaty allowed Japan to increase the size of its navy to roughly the same size as those of the United States and Great Britian, which had been limited to a 5 to 3 ratio by the Washington Conference of 1921. In 1934, Japan completely renounced the treaty.
| The Bonus Army, which Hoover ordered put down in May 1932, was an effort by World War I veterans to immediately claim bonuses that were not due till when? | Herbert Hoover
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1945. The bonuses for World War I veterans had been originally passed by Congress in 1924, over the veto of President Coolidge.
| When Hoover's wife Lou died in 1944, where was she buried? | Herbert Hoover
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Palo Alto, California. Lou Hoover was buried in Palo Alto, California, which the Hoovers considered their home. She was reburied in West Branch, Iowa in 1964 upon the death of her husband.
| Shortly before Hoover's death, whom did he endorse for president? | Herbert Hoover
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Barry Goldwater. Hoover died October 20, 1964 in New York City.
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