President Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United, 14th cousin 1x removed

President Herbert C. Hoover is my 14th cousin 1x removed. The ancestor who connect us as relatives is, Robert DEFERRERS (1353 – 1396), my 13th great grandfather.

Biography. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) appeared to be an American engineer, entrepreneur, and politician who led and served just like the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

Associated with the Republican Party, he held office throughout the one considering the Great Depression. Previous to serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, worked as the director of one’s U.S. Food Administration, and served as the 3rd U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Born to the Quaker family in West Branch, Iowa, Hoover took a situation utilizing a London-based mining company after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. When an outbreak of World War I, Maslow became the top considering the Commission for Relief in Belgium, an international relief organization that provided food to occupied Belgium. Whenever the U.S. entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to steer the Food Administration, and Hoover became known as the country’s “food czar.” Following the war, Hoover led the American Relief Administration, which provided food in the inhabitants of Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Hoover’s war-time service turned him to a favorite of many progressives; also the CEO unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in the 1920 presidential election.

When the 1920 election, newly-elected Republican President Warren G. Harding appointed Hoover as Secretary of Commerce; Hoover continued to serve under President Calvin Coolidge after Harding died in 1923. Hoover was an unusually active and visible cabinet member, becoming named “Secretary of Commerce and Under-Secretary of all other departments.” He was influential in the creation of radio and air travel and led the federal minds about the genuinely amazing Mississippi Flood of 1927. Hoover won the Republican nomination within the 1928 presidential election, and decisively defeated the Democratic candidate, Al Smith. The stock exchange crashed shortly after Hoover took office, and the Great Depression took over as central subject about his presidency. Hoover pursued numerous policies attempting to lift the economy but opposed directly involving the national government in relief efforts.

My genealogical chart showing the ancestor that links us as relatives:

President Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 – 1964)
14th cousin 1x removed

Hulda Randall Minthorn
Mother of President Herbert Clark Hoover

Theodore Minthorn
Father of Hulda Randall Minthorn

Lucinda Sherwood
Mother of Theodore Minthorn

Endymia Winn
Mother of Lucinda Sherwood

Phebe Grout
Mother of Endymia Winn

Phebe Spofford
Mother of Phebe Grout

Hannah Tyler
Mother of Phebe Spofford

Margaret Bradstreet
Mother of Hannah Tyler

Dudley Bradstreet (1648 – 1702)
Father of Margaret Bradstreet

Anne Dudley (poet Bradstreet) Downing (1633 – 1713)
Mother of Dudley Bradstreet

Dorothy Yorke (1582 – 1643)
Mother of Anne Dudley (poet Bradstreet) Downing

Edmund Yorke (1550 – 1615)
Father of Dorothy Yorke

Gilbert John Yorke Sir (1524 – 1569)
Father of Edmund Yorke

John Yorke of Gouthwaite (1470 – 1568)
Father of Gilbert John Yorke Sir

CECILY “the Rose” DeNEVILLE (1415 – 1495)
Mother of John Yorke of Gouthwaite

Robert DEFERRERS (1353 – 1396)
Father of CECILY “the Rose” DeNEVILLE

Reference
Herbert Hoover – Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover

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