Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.

The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, ...

Running on a progressive platform, Herbert C. Hoover was enormously popular. His economic acuity was especially respected as he had established his capable good judgment during his tenure as secretary ...

Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, ...

Responding to Europe’s plight, Herbert Hoover helped organize and lead an international relief effort on an unprecedented scale. One hundred years ago today, the First World War ended in Europe.

President Herbert Hoover remains the only U.S. president to have been born in Iowa. On Aug. 10, his hometown will celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth with Hoover's Hometown Days.

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.