Erik Ferguson

Nov 15, 2024 | enotrans.org | Jeff Davis |Jonathan Hammond |Karen Price |Erik Ferguson

Herbert Hoover was a great engineer and an even greater humanitarian, but he ran out of luck when he took office as president of the United States in March 1929, seven months before Wall Street’s Black Friday ushered in the seemingly endless Great Depression. Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, precariously perched on the edge of the Great American Desert. Orphaned as a child, he was raised by an uncle in Oregon.