<P> Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10 , 1874 -- October 20 , 1964 ) was an American engineer , businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression . A Republican , as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization , efficiency and international trade . As president from 1929 to 1933 , his ambitious programs were overwhelmed by the Great Depression , which seemed to get worse every year because of the increasingly large - scale interventions he made in the economy . Hoover was defeated in a landslide in 1932 by Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt and spent the rest of his life as a conservative denouncing big government , liberalism and federal intervention in economic affairs as Democrats repeatedly used his Depression record to attack conservatism and justify more regulation of the economy . </P>
<P> Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10 , 1874 -- October 20 , 1964 ) was an American engineer , businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression . A Republican , as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization , efficiency and international trade . As president from 1929 to 1933 , his ambitious programs were overwhelmed by the Great Depression , which seemed to get worse every year because of the increasingly large - scale interventions he made in the economy . Hoover was defeated in a landslide in 1932 by Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt and spent the rest of his life as a conservative denouncing big government , liberalism and federal intervention in economic affairs as Democrats repeatedly used his Depression record to attack conservatism and justify more regulation of the economy . </P>
who became president in 1929 the year of the great crash
who became president in 1929 the year of the great crash
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover