WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- With an extraordinary display of Republican pageantry, Herbert Hoover ... of the United States." Hoover changed his plans at the last moment and kissed the ...

Hoover was the last president whose term ended on March ... when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.

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.

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.