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Herbert Hoover

31st President of the United States Political Party: Republican Term: 1929-1933 Vice President: Charles Curtis Born: 1874 Died: 1964

Hoover was elected during a tough time, he was elected during the stock market crash in 1929. However his administration tried to help out banks, farmers, and business in the Great Depression. Overall Hoover deserves a high C for his presidency, because although he passed acts that helped the economy he was hated by a lot of people during his campaign for the 1932 election.

During the 1928 election when Calvin Coolidge sayed that he would not be running for a second term in office in 1927 the Republicans chose Herbert Hoover as the leading candidate for the election. Hoover was running against Democrat Alfred Smith. Both Hoover and Smith seen themselves as pro-business, and promised to improve the conditioned on farmers, reform immigration laws, and maintain America's change form imperialists to isolationists with foreign policy. Hoover won the election in 1928.

When Hoover entered office he had a plan to restore the nation's regulatory system, he believed that a Federal Bureaucracy should limit regulation over the countries economy. Hoover saw his presidency as a way to improve the conditions of America by encouraging volunteerism. Hoover explained the civil service coverage of Federal positions; he canceled private oil leases on government lands, perused gangsters for tax evasion. He even caught the notorious gangster Al Capone.

Not all foreign countries liked Hoover. While in Argentina anarchists led by Severino Di Giovanni planned to destroy the railcar where Hoover was. However this attempt backfired when he was caught by the police before even placing the bombs on the rails. With his foreign policies moving Hoover began to create what would later become the Good Neighbor Policy. He first began to withdraw troops from Latin American countries like Nicaragua and Haiti; he also provided an arms embargo on Latin American countries and one-third of the world’s naval power. As a result of this the Roosevelt Collary ceased being a part of the United States foreign policy.

In 1929 the worst financial crash of the United States happened. Hoover feared that too much intervention by the government would destroy self-reliance and individuality. Both his ideals and the economy were put to the test when the Depression came. Believed by some historians Hoover actually tried to make an attempt to stop the downward spiral. Hoover adopted pro-labor policies after the 1929 stock market crash that accounted for more than two-thirds of the nation's gross domestic product over the following two years. Hoover took a stand and tried to protect the economy through wage controls and job sharing. Hoover's theory on the stock market crash was the inequality of wealth and income. After signing the Davis-Bacon Act which required local governments to pay union wages Hoover then signed the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prevented courts from issuing injunctions against union strikes. Hoover agreed to take back previous tax cuts that his administration had affected on upper class incomes. The final attempt passed by the Hoover administration was to rescue the economy that occurred in 1932. With the passing of the Emergency Relief and the Construction Act which authorized funds for public work programs and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). The RFC had minimal impact at the time, however when future President Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office it was a great addition to his New Deal program.

During the Great Depression thousands of World War I veterans gathered at Washington D.C. they wanted the immediate payment of their bonuses for fighting in the military. Hoover sent an army to help the lower ranked officers to stop the March. The entire incident was another negative towards Hoover and his administration.

In the election of 1932 Hoover had come to detest his presidency but he ran again for president. Hoover was nominated by the republicans for a second term. In his campaigning around the country people often threw eggs and rotten fruit at his train or his motorcade. He was often heckled by speeches and on occasion the Secret Service had to intervene because people actually made attempts to assassinate Hoover. In the end Hoover suffered a large defeat in the election.

Most of the effect that Hoover left after his presidency was negative due to the Great Depression. He failed to see that he has the only to bring America out of this economic slump. He did try to improve the economy by passing Acts. However Hoover is now remembered as the President who was the cause of the Great Depression.

The country was in a much worse condition after Hoover left office than before he was elected in 1929. Hoover made few positive changes for America. The Great Depression was not directly caused by Hoover; however some of his decisions were affected of this stock market crash. Because Hoover passed Acts that helped the economy and helped out with foreign policies he deserves a high C.

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