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Herbert Hoover was president from 1928 to 1932 and is generally blamed for the Depression, but the economic and social problems that led to the collapse of the stock market in October 1929 were fermenting during the presidencies of Harding and Coolidge. Generally speaking, Hoover was unfairly blamed for the depression.
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Herbert Hoover was President when the Great Depression began. Franklin Roosevelt was President when the Depression ended.
Herbert Hoover was president when it became obvious that the economy was in a depression.
Herbert Hoover had just become President in 1929 when the Great Depression began. His ineffective response led to his defeat by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
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Former United States President Herbert Hoover was the do-nothing president, he disapproved of the "New Deal" that former President Franklin D. Roosevelt put up for the solution of the Great Depression, and wanted the people to solve the economic problem themselves.
Herbert C. Hoover was the President when the stock market crashed in October of 1929.
We were near the depths of the great depression, following the stock market crash of 1929. We had all the economic problems we have today, almost of the same severity. FDR plunged in and took over with the democrats, just as Obama did.