Where did Herbert Hoover live before becoming president?

Answer 1

Herbert Hoover never really had one home. he traveled the world as consulting mining engineer . However when they were not traveling Herbert Hoover lived in London. He also lived on the Stanford University campus where he had once been a student, for several years. His house on campus is now the home of the Stanford president. He was born in Iowa and moved to Oregon to live with his uncle after his parents died. He lived in Washington, DC while he was Secretary of Commerce.

Answer 2

Hoover was a Mining Engineer from 1896-1914 . He had his own company, did a lot of big jobs, many for foreign governments and made a fortune doing it.

During World War I, he was head of the American Relief Committee which helped Americans caught up in Europe during the war. He then headed the Commission for the Relief of Belgium and the American Relief Administration which sent food and supplies to Europe. He the U.S. Food Administrator (1917-18). From 1921-28 he served as the Secretary of Commerce for Presidents Harding and Coolidge.

Answer 3

Herbert Hoover was the Commerce Secretary under Presidents Harding and Coolidge (1921-1928). However, he was by profession an engineer (mining and civil), and he had done a lot of humanitarian work (among other things, he was head of the American Relief Administration that distributed food in Europe after World War I and kept literally millions of Europeans from starving... he had also headed the agency that managed to avoid food rationing in the US during World War I by promoting "meatless Mondays" and "wheatless Wednesdays").

Answer 4

Before Herbert Hoover was elected to be the 31st US president, he held several important positions. Here is a brief summary of his career in the years close to his presidential election:

1. !921 to 1928 served as the Secretary of Commerce;

2. 1917 to 1919 served as the US food administrator; and

3. 1915 to 1919 directed the Commission for relief in Belgium.

Answer 5

Hoover graduated from Stanford in 1895 with a degree in geology. Hoover traveled to Australia in 1897 to work in gold mines. During World War I, he helped some 120,000 United States citizens to return home from Europe. He organized a volunteer food drive and negotiated with the Germans to get food and clothing into Belgium. Woodrow Wilson appointed him head of the United States Food Administration . Hoover served as the Secretary of Commerce for Calvin Coolidge.

Answer 6

He served as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. Unfortunately for Mr. Hoover, his background did not adequately prepare him for what he was about to face.

Answer 7

Yes! he lived in a house now called the White House in West Grove, Hersham, Surrey

Answer 8

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