Hoover was born in (1874) West Branch, Iowa, as the son of Jesse Clark and Huldah Minthorn Hoover ,both of his parents are Quakers. When he was ten, his uncle took him to Newbreg to live with him on a Quaker settlement in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where he worked and went to school. Later he worked in a office as a office boy where he studied mathematics and business. A professor named Joseph Swain, helped Hoover gain admission as a freshman at Stanford . He supported his-self by typing, at a laundry place and working as a secretary for a professor. In 1895 he received his Bachelors degree in mining engineering. In 1896and 1897, Hoover worked for the a leading engineer in San Francisco, California. When he was recommended at the age of 23 he got a job with a London mining firm Called Bewick, Moreing and Company, and to introduce California methods to the company’s gold mines in Western Australia . In Australia he recommended that the firm get a rich gold mine, and his salary rose fast. He turned from a administrator to bargaining with labor and negotiating with the Australian government. The company then send him to china. During his Senior year in at Stanford, he met a woman by the name of Lou Henry, a young woman who was also studied in geology at Stanford. On his way to china in 1899 he stopped in California and they married, they had two sons. In China he was a chief engineer in the Chinese government’s imperial bureau of mines. In china a group known as the Boxer Rebellion, an attack upon foreigners living in Beijing, and the Hoover’s were nearby in Tianjin (Tientsin) When the rebellion broke out. The foreign residents took refuge in their district of the city, and Hoover and the engineers built a wall against the attackers. He and his soon to be wife risked their life’s to transport food and medical supplies to the wounded. Later in 1900 Herbert went to England . There he was given a one- fifth interest in Bewick, Moreing and Company , which then made gold, silver tin, copper, and lead mines in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and Nevada. He also owned a turquoise mine in Egypt. Hoover became a World known consulting engineer in a score of mining companies . By 1914he was managing director or chief consulting engineer and he became a wealthy man.

President Calvin Coolidge withdrew from the 1928 presidential race and left the Republican Party open. Hoover had been making plans to seek the presidency, and his personal organization began an active hunt for delegates. When the national convention assembled in Kansas City, Missouri, in June 1928, the delegates and their bosses recognized the attractiveness of Hoover’s name to voters and nominated him for president on the first ballot. Hoover received 837 votes to only 74 for his nearest rival, former Governor Frank O. Lowden. The convention adopted a platform and chose United States Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas as the Republican candidate for vice president. Hoover had previously declared himself in favor of enforcement of the 18^th Amendment( which banned Alcohol)"a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and big purpose.

Hoover was the Democratic nominee, Governor Alfred E. Smith was a product of New York City’s Tammy Hall, a Political organization whose name had become corrupted. He was also Roman Catholic, Considered a handicap in the Protestant nation. Smith also opposed the 18^th Amendment, which made him unacceptable to lots of rural reigns in the South and West. Many of his Achievements are a mining book he wrote that was used in school .He was also translated a book for Mrs. Hoover he called it "Georgius Agriccola’s De Re Metallica ," It was published in 1556, this dealt with mining and metallical process. He also was a Humanitarian, Author and helped with the U.S. Food Administrator after the United States entered the war in 1917. He was different because he was his only president who did mining and his world-renown and financially successful he also had to adapt to a give or take political life, He never had to campaign for elective office before 1928, he never learned to reach the people at large, but the depression that doomed his career.