Herbert Clark Hoover: The Great Scrooge

Herbert Hoover was elected president of the United States on November 19, 1928; unfortunately, less than eight months later, the stock market crashed. Hoover mistakenly considered this crash as only a passing point for America. But it was only three years later when economic slowdown and over speculation brought America into an upcoming Great Depression. This was a devastating blow for Hoover, his administration, and the American people. President Hoover attempted many ways to fix the economy. He founded new government agencies and encouraged cooperation between government and business to try to stabilize prices as well as attempt to balance the budget. These relief attempts might have shown positive outcome in the early years of the depression, but as the economy worsened, calls for more government involvement increased.

Because of the plague known as the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover is often seen as one of the worst presidents in American history. He enacted policies such as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff that flushed America deeper into the depression. Hoover didn't understand that to solve a crisis such as a depression, he needed to interact directly with the people by using programs such as social security and welfare. Instead, Hoover had the idea that if he were to let the depression run its course, it would eventually end. There are three things that can be used to define Hoover's presidency during the depression, his actions, his mentality toward fixing things, and the fact that he helped pave the way for the “New Deal”

Herbert Hoover was known as the great humanitarian who can solve any problem he faced. Later on, it turns out to be false which ends up hurting not only America but the people

Hoover was born in a Quaker community, which he later left at the age of nine since his parents died. His father died first at the age of 34, in 1880, the cause was pneumonia and heart failure. And Hoover’s mother died died in 1884 of typhoid fever

To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover had been unwilling to deal with the crisis, the Great Depression, and failed to provide a solution. But these failings gave Roosevelt his chance to take action. He came up with new and bold ideas that was exactly what the country needed after the years of inaction by Hoover. For example, when the Stock Market had crashed in 1929, unlike Hoover, FDR recognized the flaws in it straightaway, the flaws that had allowed for the bank failings and the overall crash. And then immediately proposed ideas to do what was possible for a fix.

The year was 1929. America goes through the biggest national crisis since the American Civil War. They called it the Great Depression. The Stock Market was going down, unemployment was going up, and money was becoming scarce. The United States had to look up to the one person who could lead the country out of this national catastrophe, The President. At this time the man who had that title was none other than Herbert Hoover. Hoover, A republican, hoped that this was all a nightmare, he hoped that the Depression was a small fluke that would fix itself after a short period of time. After seeing that the Depression was getting worse had to

A plundering devastation into the heart of America left thousands of American dreams and beings crushed by an invisible malefactor engendered no other than ourselves. The steps Herbert Hoover took during the Great Depression were not adequate to dig America out of the economy downfall. Programs that were created to put people back to work and avail state and local charities with aid didn’t benefit the majority of the population, compared to those who genuinely needed it. American citizens decreed Hoover’s presidency as the situation crescendo; not even all the way into the depression the public's ratings of Hoover were ostensibly low. In 1931, he pledged federal aid in case of starvation in the country; however he still had yet to witness the devastating starvation of Americans from all social stances and ages. He was rooted so deeply in his American philosophy that he could be viewed as neither intentionally ignorant nor merciless. Hoover grasped tight onto his political stance that hinder the efficient help he needed to provide while the Great Depression started to make a home in America; leading to the frustration and exasperation of American citizens.

Hoover was the type of conservative that believed the economy would repair itself and the dead parts would fall. He refused to give direct federal relief to the people. in business affairs, Hoover kept America as a rugged individualist, capitalist society with little regulation. In fact, when the depression hit he bailed out the businesses rather than the American people. He established the Reconstructive Finance Corporation, which supplied corporate relief for corporations identified to be too big to fail. He was the first president that used his money made for being the president, for donations to charity. He was living the American Dream. Publicity of being a self-made man torched him when his strategies failed to relinquish the burden of the Great Depression (Hughes 1).

Herbert Hoover served as the thirty-first President from 1929 to 1933 where he was succeeded by Roosevelt. Hoover was the United States President during a troubling time for many Americans; the Great Depression. Hoover gained a “reputation as a humanitarian in World War I by leading hunger-relief efforts in Europe as head of the American Relief Administration” (biography.com). Hoover was also the U.S. secretary of commerce before he served time in office. Hoover was a known humanitarian and organized many relief efforts. Hoover has many other published works such as The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, The Challenge to Liberty, The Problems of Lasting Peace, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, Principles of Mining, and Fishing

President Herbert Hoover once pronounced, “The president is not only the leader of the party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.” America’s 31st president was forced to tackle the Great Depression and help save others from starvation. Born in Iowa Village in 1874, Herbert Hoover, an orphan, adopted by his uncle, grew up in Oregon Where he attended Quaker schools. Hoover enrolled at Stanford University when the school opened in 1891, where he then graduated as a mining engineer. Herbert Hoover positively impacted humanity due to improvements in the economy as well as culturally making a difference in people’s lives. Specifically, he provided others with homes to stay in, lent money to citizens, and attempted to stop the Great Depression. Hoover also culturally affected humanity positively by providing members of the United States and Europe with necessities, saving people from disease with the help of the peace army, and providing people with food.

In the role of being the Secretary Commerce, Hoover encouraged the formation of trade associations, and was an advocate for farmers, and was really interested in seeking overseas markets for American businesses so they would have more success. When Hoover was secretary of commerce one thing really made him stand out. In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded, which left 350,000 people with nowhere to live and most of them didn’t have the resources to survive. Hoover was very influential in making sure the families that were affected by the flood were taken care of with food, clothing, and housing. With such care and respect for the families that lost everything, this publicity made him one of the most famous secretary of commerce the U.S. has ever seen. Because of his success, in 1928 Hoover was nominated and elected president of the United States. (Benson)

Herbert Clark Hoover was gloriously born August 10, 1874 and tragically died after suffering for days from a massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage on October 20, 1964. Both of Hoover’s parents were dead by the time he was nine years old and was raised in a Quaker home. By the time Hoover was 23 years old he was working as an engineer in Western Australia. As a republican, Hoover served head of the U.S. food Admin. during world war 1, and became internationally known for humanitarian efforts in war-time Belgium. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the prescript "economic modernization". In the presidential

Above all President Hoover saw poverty with his own eyes, and knew that he must change it any way possible. Because people shouldn’t be living on the streets or jobless, it was hard for the people who were homeless, because trying to live in the horrible conditions, and doing their best to find hope in Hoover was very difficult. it was heartbreaking for Hoover to see and hear about what’s been happening he decided to re open businesses, and help unemployed people have a job, create new buildings and jobs for everyone to have a second chance at living their lives.

During the reign of Hoover’s Presidency, America was restricted from going to war under his command, this decision seemed right to him and must have seemed right to others at the time, however the decision would return a distasteful course. The country was landed in the Great Depression. Stocks hit their lowest mark, the banking systems crashed, which left many destitute. By the time election was in sight, there was no chance for Hoover to gain any ground against Franklin Delano Roosevelt(FDR). What was it that gave FDR solid victory? Aside from the fact that people felt tamed under the Hoover rule, they also wanted to contribute to FDR’s recovery roadmap to freedom. Part of the roadmap would include the new deal, policies to guide the new

President Herbert Hoover took office shortly before the Great Depression began, in a time in which the country was doing well.