Herbert Hoover
Videos
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. Hoover's term as president was dominated by the Great Depression, which his attempts to alleviate proved un
Hoover in 1928
Hoover's birthplace cottage in West Branch, Iowa
Hoover in 1877
Hoover, aged 23; taken in Perth, Western Australia, in 1898
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Videos
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have se
Herbert Hoover
…was dominated by the Great Depression, which his attempts to alleviate proved unpopular with the American people. As a result, he lost reelection to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 United States presidential election. In 1895, Hoover became one of the first graduates of the new Stanford University. He took a position…
Campaign portrait, 1944
A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, aged 2
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908
Roosevelt in 1912