Herbert Hoover's Criticism Of The Great Depression

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was one of America’s most forgotten presidents and is at the very bottom of the list when it comes to polls ranking chief executives. He was born on the 10th of August 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. He grew up in Oregon and went to Stanford University when it opened in 1891, he then graduated as a mining engineer. People do not remember him very much because he is often skipped over when it comes to any U.S. history even in textbooks. However, if people do know who he is, those people most likely remember him to be “an economic Satan”, as well as the president during the first four years of the Great Depression. Hoover served as the thirty first president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. Before this, he married

Hoover became the scapegoat for the Depression and was badly defeated in 1932. In the 1930's he became a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism. The Depression got worse throughout Hoover’s term in office, and critics increasingly portrayed him as indifferent to the suffering of the American people. By the time of the 1932 presidential election, Hoover had become a deeply unpopular–even reviled–figure across much of the country. Carrying only six states, he was soundly defeated by Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York, who promised to enact a slate of progressive reforms and economic relief programs that he described as a New Deal for the American people.

In 1947 President Truman appointed Hoover to a commission, which elected him chairman, to reorganize the Executive Departments. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. Many economies resulted from both commissions' recommendations. Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, one of which he was working on when he died at 90 in New York City on October 20,