Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. During his first year in office the Wall Street crash of 1929 occurred. He was blamed for the resulting collapse of the economy, and his unpopular policies brought an end to a brilliant career in public office. After the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, however, Hoover remained a leading critic of the New Deal and a spokesman for the Republican Party. Orphaned at an early age, he lived with an wealthy uncle, enabling Hoover to study mining engineering at Stanford University; he graduated in 1895.