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Herbert Hoover COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM R e g i s t e r of X Processedt MA Bate* 10/28/55 HERBERT HOOTO the papers of Herbert Hoover, mining engineer, chairman o f Belgian r e l i e f i n Vorld Wer I , Secretary of Commerce, President o f the United S t a t e s (1929*1933)» seeis to be scattered among the various agencies vhich he headed* His private p&pers f o r h i s period a s President are i n the Hoover Library a t Stanford University, Palo A l t o , California* They were In the process of being catalogued when the a r c h i v i s t died i n 1954. ( ? ) • Until a nev a r c h i v i s t i s appointed and trained, the papers w i l l not be open to students* Linear f e e t o f s h e l f space occupied* Approximate number o f i t e a s I Other papers may be in the li&tional Archives* Ho e f f e c t i v e move has y e t been made to drav the great mass of Hoover papers Into one place* See i n t e r n a l aemorandua A p r i l , 1955 Herbert Hoover II - 2 • Biographical Hote 1874» Au g» M Bora, Wast Branch, lova 1895 A.B., Stanford, California 1399 Harried Lou Henry (dee*) (2 sons) 1895*1913 Professional work in mines, railroads, metallurgical works a l l over tae -world 1914-15 Chairman, American Relief Commission, London 1915-19 Chairman, Commission for Relief in Belgium 1917-19 QT.S. Food Administrator 1921-28 Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding Coolidge President of the United States 1929-33 1932 Renominated for Fresident of 0*8,, defeated byFranklin D» Koosevelt 1947-49 Chaina&n of CoBrrdttee on Organisation of Executive Branch of Government Author of* American Individualism* 1922• The Challenge to. Liberty, 1934* American Boad« 1937. Further Addresses on the Aai€>rican Hoed, America's First Crusade a 1941* The Problems of Lasting Peace* 1942* Addresses on the American Ro&d» 1945» For account of h i s rel^tioa© vith the Federal Reserve System* see that volume of his Memoirs sub-titled "The Greet Depression.* (Macadllan, 1952) §ee Vho'a ¥ho in America, 1952/53 f vol» 27, Marquis
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