Herbert+Hoover

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 * Born in Iowa 1874
 * Son of Blacksmith and Quaker
 * Enrolled at stanford 1891
 * Became presidential nominee in 1928
 * Won election in 1929
 * Promised americans prosperity and tax cuts
 * Depression impacted his term negativly as commander and chief
 * Hoover became a scapegoat to other congress members for the depression, this was because congress didnt want to take the blame for Americas poor financial status
 * Hoover was beaten badly in the upcoming election but in 1947 President Truman appointed him to a branch that orginized Executive departments. Soon after that he became chairman, and then in 1953 Eisnenhower appointed him to chairman of a similar branch.



=Handling The Depression =


 * hebert Hoover took the depression in stride propossing a "New Deal" for city works and other issues such as the high pay wages that were in place after the crash of the stock market. Although Hoover was some what blamed for the crash of the stock market, he swiftly made changes he saw fit. Such as over 100 million dollars in tax cuts and he spent almost double that in city works programs to start reconstruction. Speculators thought that his choices to put the money into City Works programs was the wrong one considering he could of used the money for relief programs for the unemployed at the time.

=Different Political Opurtunities =
 * Hoover loosing in the next election to Franklin D Rosevelt
 * After loosing election to FRD Hoover in 1945 after Rosevelts death president Truman invited Hoover to the white house to orginize a european war relief.
 * After he was appointed chairman of Orginization of the Executive of the Government, Truman renamed the Colorado River Dam to " The Hoover Dam"
 * Soon after