Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was the 30th and last President of the Old United States. As the Vice-President of his predecessor Leonard Wood, he asceded to the role of President following Wood's assassination in 1927. He would later be elected in the 1928 presidential elections, under a Republican-DFL ticket. He sought to increase party unity by taking credit for the reforms of his predecessor, while reducing the emphasis placed on social change. Under his presidency, the Great Depression began in 1929-30, America's most severe economic crisis up until that point, causing mass unemployment, homelessness and poverty, and further exacerbating internal political tensions...