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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 18740810 - 19641020

Biographical / Historical

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) was an American politician, mining engineer, author, and government official. He served as president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Edward Nash Hurley Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: HUR
Scope and Content Personal correspondence (1917-1923); correspondence of the Hurley Machine Company; French correspondence from the Office of the American Commercial Attaché and correspondence concerning the Labor Adjustment Board, the United States Shipping Board, the Peace Conference of 1919, and Housing at Hog Island; manuscripts of The Bridge to France and related papers including some early correspondence (1910-1917) of John Harlan and Woodrow Wilson; photocopies of letters from Woodrow Wilson, Calvin...
Dates: 1910-1933

Frederick Kenkel Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: KNA
Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, reports, and other papers; with material on the Kenkel family, clippings, maps, notebooks, a reel of microfilm containing letters from Kenkel to Joseph Matt (1906-1913), photographs of Kenkel and members of his family and books from Kenkel's library. Correspondents include Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John A. Ryan, Congressman John J. Cochran, and Brother Joseph Dutton. Extensive family correspondence includes letters from those serving in World War...
Dates: 1871-1952.

Gene Tunney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates: 1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945