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March 4, 1929: Inaugural Address. Transcript. My Countrymen: This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which can be assumed by an American citizen. It is a dedication and consecration under God to the highest office in service of our people.
Before President-elect Hoover would take office, there was a nearly four-month transition period. In November 1928, President-elect Hoover embarked on a ten-nation goodwill tour of Latin America. He delivered twenty-five speeches, stressing his plans to reduce American political and military interference in Latin American affairs.
Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover, March 4, 1929 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) In November 1928, Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over the Democratic nominee Al Smith. Hoover had served in the Harding and Coolidge administrations and won the nomination after Coolidge declined to run for a third term.
10 wrz 2024 · Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. He served from 1929 to 1933. Hoover had a reputation as a humanitarian—earned during and after World War I when he rescued millions of Europeans from starvation.
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.
The inauguration of Herbert Hoover as the 31st president of the United States was held on Monday, March 4, 1929, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 36th inauguration and marked the commencement of the only term of both Herbert Hoover as president and Charles Curtis as vice president.
4 mar 2016 · Herbert Hoover — a successful engineer, humanitarian and a former secretary of commerce who had never before held elective office — was inaugurated on this day in 1929 as the nation’s 31st...
