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Nov 8, 1993 · Allan Hoover, who also lived for a time in Greenwich, Conn., was active in the affairs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in Palo Alto, Calif., which was established in 1919 as ...
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime ...
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.
Hoover White House Pets Bellhaven Behoover (Glen), a Collie. Given to Lou Hoover by Florence B. Ilch, owner of Bellhaven Collie Kennels of Red Bank, N. J., in November 1928 at the age of eight months. Apparently, Glen did not get along with other dogs at the White House and was given to Mrs. Cora Newton, the wife of Herbert Hoover's secretary, Walter Newton. AKC #666082 Big Boy, a wirehaired ...
Allan Hoover also joined the Los Angeles Bachelor’s Club, only to give it up to marry Margaret Coberly in 1937. [7] Still a free spirit, he channeled much of his creative energy into paying tribute to his father, who lost re-election in 1932 and was treated with contempt by the national media for the remainder of the decade.
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874–October 20, 1964), mining engineer, humanitarian, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and 31st President of the United States, was the son of Jesse Hoover, a blacksmith, and Hulda Minthorn Hoover, a seamstress and recorded minister in the Society of Friends (Quakers). Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, where ...
