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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874-October 20, 1964) was the thirty-first leader of the United States (1929-1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. He achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian comfort attempts in war-time Belgium and offered as brain of the U.S. Food Administration during World Conflict I. As the United States secretary of business in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between administration and business under the rubric "economic modernization". Inside the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily earned the Republican nomination despite having no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected leader of the United States as well as you of only two presidents (along with William Howard Taft) elected without electoral experience or high military rank.
