Raynors HCA 2014-11
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HOOVER, Herbert Clark (1874-1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. He achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium and served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I.[1] As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) elected without electoral experience or high military rank. America was at the height of an economic bubble at the time, facilitating a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith. Typed Letter Signed “Herbert Hoover” as President of the United States, 1pp. octavo, on “The White House” stationary, April 5, 1929, addressed to Dr. Alton Young of Volunteers of America, Inc., and reads “The Fiftieth Anniversary of the ministry of General Ballington Booth is rightly the occasion for general felicitations, and I gladly extend mine both to him and to Mrs. Maud Booth. Their work in developing the Volunteers of America into an organization of its present high social value is a distinctive contribution to human welfare.” Fine condition.
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