During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- With an extraordinary display of Republican pageantry, Herbert Hoover was today made the 30th president of the United States. Before a gathering at the foot of ...

Hoover was an organizational genius who as chief executive practiced features of the modern presidency later associated with his successor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of Hoover’s ideas for combating ...

As the conflict drew to an end in 1945, Hoover pitched his services as the country’s secretary of war to President Harry Truman. Although he declined the offer, Truman appointed Hoover to lead ...

President Herbert Hoover remains the only U.S. president to have been born in Iowa. On Aug. 10, his hometown will celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth with Hoover's Hometown Days.

Last week President Hoover mustered his sub-Cabinet of 30 members up to full strength by appointing a new Assistant Secretary of State, a new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.* To James Grafton ...

Farewells filled President Hoover’s final week in the White House. The last State dinner was for Speaker John Nance Garner, uncomfortable in evening clothes. There was a tea party for the White ...

President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his exemption of North American trade agreement-protected goods, has led to a hands-off approach from Congress, which has been ...

After Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the election in 1932 and Herbert Hoover became a lame-duck president, many blamed Hoover for the downturn of the economy that would later spur the New Deal ...

Born: August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa... Hoover was the last president whose term ended on March 3. Thereafter all presidential terms began and ended on January 20. Hoover's presidency began ...