31st President of the United States
Herbert Hoover
“The Great Engineer”
- In office
- March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933
- Party
- Republican
- Home state
- California
- Lived
- 1874–1964
- Days in office
- 1,461
- In order
- No. 31: after Calvin Coolidge, before Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Vice president
- Charles Curtis
Key achievements & events
- Earlier led famine relief that fed millions in Europe during and after World War I
- Took office months before the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression
- Created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932) to lend to banks and businesses
- Began the dam that was later named Hoover Dam
Remember: A mining engineer who became a millionaire before entering politics. He donated his presidential salary to charity.