Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States.

Background
Herbert Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration before and during World War I. He got famous after his immense efforts to deliver food supplies and money to poor little Belgium, which was totally devastated by the Germans and by the war, saving countless lives. In 1928, he easily won the elections as candidate of the republicans, becoming the 31st president of the United States. He was the first of two presidents to redistribute their salary. When Hoover just entered office, the Wall Street bubble bursted and the Great Depression started. Hoover took many measurments to try and get the economy back on the rails, by countering unemployment with massive projects like the Boulder Dam, which would later be named the Hoover Dam in honor of him. His presidency is also known for having created 3,000,000 acres of National Parks, 2,300,000 acres of National Forests and to having initiated the New Deal, which would be realized under the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the presidential elections of 1932, Herbert Hoover would lose of Franklin Roosevelt. In 1946, Harry S. Truman asked Hoover to ascertain the food supplies in Germany, on which he started the Hooverspeisung(Hoover meals), which would feed 3,500,000 children in West-Germany. On October 20, 1964, he would die of an internal bleeding, aged 90.

Appearances
Herbert Hoover is only mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas.