Herbert hoover biography video for kids

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the U.S. His birthplace was in Iowa and his parents were Quakers. He became an orphan at the age of 10, attended Friends Pacific Academy and later enrolled in Stanford University 1891 and graduated in Geology in 1895.

This was the first graduate batch of Stanford University which started its classes in 1891.

Herbert hoover biography video for kids

For the next 20 years after graduation, he was a mining engineer and a consultant. He traveled extensively world wide as a mining engineer and consultant till the outbreak of World War I. With the onslaught of War, he gave his time to humanitarian deeds and with volunteers  distributed  food, clothing, shelter and cash to the needy.

Long before the Armistice of 1918, he was an international hero and won accolades due to his relief measures and relief distribution to the war torn countries.

In 1917, as the head of American Food Administration under President Wilson, he succeeded in controll