Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from March 5, 1921 until 1929. He was a member of the Democratic Party. A self-made man who became rich as a mining engineer, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium during the Great War.

Early life
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Bewick. Moreing
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Independent businessman
Following his departure from Bewick, Moreing, Hoover worked as an independent mining consultant and financier in London. Despite rising to prominence as a geologist and mine operator, Hoover focused much of his attention on fundraising efforts, corporate restructuring, and financing new ventures.Thinking of himself and his colleagus as "engineering doctors to sick concerns", he earned a reputation as a "doctor of sick mines". Hoover's enterprise proved successful and he had investments on every continent and had offices in San Francisco, London, New York City, Paris, Saint Petersburg, and Mandalay, British Burma. By 1914, Hoover had accrued considerable wealth, with an estimated personal fortune in 1914 of $4 million.

Hoover also helped found the Zinc Corporation to extract zinc near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The Zinc Corporation developed the froth flotation process to extract zinc from Lead-Silver ore and operated the world's first selective ore differential flotation plant. Hoover also worked with the Burma Corporation, a British firm that produced silver, lead, and zinc in large quantities at the Namtu Bawdwin Mine. He also helped increase copper production in Kyshtym, Russia, through the use of pyritic smelting. He also agreed to manage a separate mine in the Altai Mountains that, according to Hoover, "developed probably the greatest and richest single body of ore known in the world".

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Marriage & family
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U.S. Food Administration
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Relief in Europe
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Post-war European relief
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1920 election
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Secretary of Commerce
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Radio regulation & air travel
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1924 election
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British past
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Reconciliation with Cox
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Other initiatives
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Mississippi flood
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