Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.

the Hoover Birthplace Committee of 1939 and the Hoover Birthplace Foundation, which started in 1954, joined forces in 1957 as the Herbert Hoover Foundation Inc. to reproduce the blacksmith shop ...

It shares grounds with the National Park Service-managed Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, which includes Hoover's birthplace, his and his wife's graves and other historic structures ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.