[DOC] [TLE] Herbert Hoover - Wikipedia [PAR] Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874  October 20, 1964) was an American 
politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 
1933. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced ... 
Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United 
States, as... [DOC] [TLE] Calvin Coolidge - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com [PAR] ... the 30th U.S. president, led the nation through most of the Roaring Twenties, a 
decade ... He took office on August 3, 1923, following the sudden death of 
President .... who had served as secretary of commerce under both Harding and 
Coolidge, ... the prosperity of the 1920s, he recognized that he bore some 
responsibility... [DOC] [TLE] Hoover's Economic Policies: The Concise Encyclopedia of ... [PAR] In 1917, he became head of the wartime Food Administration, working to reduce 
American ... For most of the 1920s, Hoover was Secretary of Commerce under .... 
was of course a Hoover measure, passed long before the inauguration.15 ... Of 
all the presidents up to and including him, Herbert Hoover was one of the most... [DOC] [TLE] Herbert Hoover: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center [PAR] ... of history to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance challenges. 
more  .... For the first nine years of his life, he lived in the small town of West 
Branch, Iowa, ... In 1917, after the United States entered the war, President 
Woodrow Wilson ... Under Hoover's leadership, the Department of Commerce 
became as... [DOC] [TLE] Herbert Hoover: Domestic AffairsMiller Center [PAR] Herbert Hoover took office in 1929 with a display of optimism and the ... James 
Davis, Secretary of Commerce Robert Lamont, and Secretary of Agriculture 
Arthur Hyde. ... He directed the Department of the Interior to improve conditions 
for Native ... and reinforcing causes of the nation's most severe economic crisis: 
structural... [DOC] [TLE] Herbert Hoover . Hoover Dam . WGBH American Experience | PBS [PAR] During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to 
authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of 
Commerce for President Warren Harding. ... A millionaire before age 40, Hoover 
was admired for his talent as a mining ... He served as Commerce Secretary for 
both men. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 7 Herbert Hoover and the Depression - Digital History [PAR] President Herbert Hoover was probably the best prepared and most qualified of 
the three ... the 1920's. Born in ... engineer that he made a million dollars before 
he was 40. ... a Republican and served as a very distinguished Secretary of. 
Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. ... after Hoover became 
president. [DOC] [TLE] "Herbert Hoover's Tragic Presidency " - Austin Community College [PAR] He could well have been a good - if not great - president had he served at 
another time. ... in mining engineering, he went on to found his own business and 
became a ... Hoover would serve as Secretary of Commerce during the next eight 
years. ... 1920s, Hoover entered the presidency in 1929 with a great deal of 
ballyhoo. [DOC] [TLE] The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover | National Archives [PAR] He was elected thirty-first President of the United States in a 1928 landslide, but 
... In one of history's most remarkable comebacks, he returned to public service at 
the ... Hoover, then secretary of commerce (and joked Washington wags, "
assistant ... a sort of superman," he told the Christian Science Monitor shortly 
before he... [DOC] [TLE] The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum [PAR] Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was active in everything from radio to 
aviation ... Calvin Coolidge, Harding's vice president, was a very different sort--
shy where ... Most of all, they liked his tax cuts and the calm he restored after the 
war and ... Yet under Hoover this themeless hodgepodge became the most 
dynamic... [DOC] [TLE] American National Biography Online: Hoover, Herbert Clark [PAR] Moreover, the prevailing sense of prosperity that most areas of the country were 
...

Question: He was Secretary of Commerce for most of the 1920s, before he became president
Answer: Herbert Hoover