Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover
American
United States President - AsNotedIn
United States President - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Significant name | Skyline Drive Historic District - Skyland, Lewis Mountain and Big Meadows | Shenandoah National Park | |||||
| Dr Henry J Minthorn House (Herbert Hoover House) | Newberg | ||||||
| 1874/08/10 | Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover, wife of Jesse Hoover, gives birth to a son, Herbert Clark Hoover, at home in West Branch, Iowa. | Born | Herbert Hoover National Historic Site | West Branch | |||
| 1891/00/00 | Leland Stanford Junior University enrolls its first students. | Education | Stanford University Main Quad | Stanford, CA | |||
| 1920/00/00 | The Hoover family settle into their new residence. | Home | Lou Henry Hoover House | Stanford, CA | |||
| 1927/00/00 | Herbert Hoover visits Couchwood | Visitor | Couchwood Estate | Malvern | |||
| 1929/00/00 | Marines build President Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover's Rapidan Camp 1929 to 1932 | Vacation home | Camp Hoover | Shenandoah National Park | |||
| 1929/03/04 | 31st President of the United States: 4 March 1929 - 4 March 1933 | The White House | Washington, DC | ||||
| 1929/10/21 | The Edison Institute is dedicated by Herbert Hoover. The attendees include Marie Curie, George Eastman, John D Rockefeller, Will Rogers, and Orville Wright. The dedication is broadcast on radio. | Dignitary | The Henry Ford Museum | Dearborn | |||
| 1930/01/00 | President Herbert Hoover occupies the Secretary of the Navy's office for a few months following a fire in the Oval Office on Christmas Eve 1929. | Work | Eisenhower Executive Office Building | Washington, DC | |||
| 1931/01/04 | Lou and Herbert Hoover worship at the Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington. | Faith | Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington | Washington, DC | |||
| 1931/03/19 | President Hoover begins a 12 day Caribbean cruise aboard the USS Arizona. Hoover addressed the Puerto Rican legislature in San Juan and met with the governor of the Virgin Islands before sailing on to Hampton Roads. | Visitor | USS ARIZONA Wreck | World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument - Hawaii | President Hoover Takes a Caribbean Vacation | ||
| 1932/00/00 | The Hoovers donate Rapidan Camp to the Commonwealth of Virginia for use as a summer retreat for subsequent presidents. In December 1935, Camp Hoover became part of Shenandoah National Park. | Benefactor | Camp Hoover | Shenandoah National Park | |||
| 1932/11/07 | Hoover stopped in Cheyenne the night before his defeat in the 1932 election. In the election the next day, Hoover gained 43.9 percent of the vote in Wyoming, losing the state to Franklin Roosevelt by the biggest margin ever recorded to that time. | US President | Cheyenne | Wyoming | |||
| 1938/00/00 | President Herbert Hoover stays at the Occidental Hotel in the summer of 1932. He was back in Wyoming running for re-election (a race that he lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in November.) | Guest | The Occidental Hotel | Buffalo |