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Herbert Hoover

1874 - 1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928 before being elected president in 1928. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Hoover has received more than 15,965,777 page views. His biography is available in 128 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 125 in 2019). Herbert Hoover is the 529th most popular politician (up from 582nd in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from United States (up from 174th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Politician.

Herbert Hoover is most famous for being the 31st president of the United States. He was in office from 1929 to 1933.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herbert Hoover ranks 529 out of 19,576. Before him are Valerian, Zhou Enlai, Frederick William I of Prussia, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Amin al-Husseini, and Henry VI of England. After him are Tahmasp I, Friedrich Ebert, Emperor Jimmu, Umberto II of Italy, Philip V of France, and Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Herbert Hoover ranks 6. Before him are Winston Churchill, Robert Frost, Guglielmo Marconi, Harry Houdini, and Arnold Schoenberg. After him are Howard Carter, Chaim Weizmann, Ernst Cassirer, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, and Edward Thorndike. Among people deceased in 1964, Herbert Hoover ranks 3. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru, and Douglas MacArthur. After him are Paul of Greece, Alma Mahler, Victor Francis Hess, Norbert Wiener, Leo Szilard, Ian Fleming, Rachel Carson, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, and James Franck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herbert Hoover ranks 161 out of 20,380. Before him are J. D. Salinger (1919), James Monroe (1758), John Wayne (1907), John Steinbeck (1902), Denzel Washington (1954), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867). After him are Dale Carnegie (1888), Jackson Pollock (1912), Olympias (-375), Barry Barish (1936), Sharon Tate (1943), and Amelia Earhart (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Herbert Hoover ranks 35. Before him are Crazy Horse (1840), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), Barack Obama (1961), John Adams (1735), and James Monroe (1758). After him are Sitting Bull (1831), Geronimo (1829), James Madison (1751), Benjamin Harrison (1833), John Quincy Adams (1767), and James A. Garfield (1831).

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