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 became famous after his immense efforts to deliver food supplies and money to Belgium and northern France, which was totally devastated by the Germans and by the war, saving an estimated 11 million lives during throughout 1914-1918. In 1918, the American Relief Administration began operating in Poland, feeding 1.5 million Poles over a period of 6 months. The total amount of people that were fed by his program between 1914 and 1922 is estimated at 200 million. 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 burst and the Great Depression began. Hoover took many measurements to attempt to bring the economy back on the rails, by countering unemployment with massive projects such as 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 lost to Franklin Roosevelt. In 1945, Harry S. Truman asked Hoover to ascertain the food supplies in twenty-eight nations during the 1946-1947 famine. In Germany, he set up the Hooverspeisung, (Hoover meals) which fed 3,500,000 children in West Germany. On October 20, 1964, he died of internal bleeding, aged 90.

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