RARE \"31st President\" Herbert Hoover Hand Signed TLS JG Autograph COA For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! \"31st President of the United States\" Herbert Hoover Hand Signed TLS Dated 1963. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
ES-1832BHerbert 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 themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade. As president from 1929 to 1933, his domestic programs were overshadowed by the onset of the Great Depression. Hoover was defeated in a landslide election in 1932 by Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt. After this loss, Hoover became staunchly conservative, and advocated against Roosevelt\'s New Deal policies. A lifelong Quaker, he became a successful mining engineer with a global perspective. He built an international reputation as a humanitarian by leading international relief efforts in Belgium during World War I, 1914–17. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917 he became \"food czar\" as head of the U.S. Food Administration with charge of much of the nation\'s food supply and a massive advertising campaign to help consumers adjust and save. He worked well with President Woodrow Wilson and the cabinet, and gained a large national audience. After the war, he led the American Relief Administration, which provided food to the inhabitants of Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Hoover was popular among progressives as a potential candidate in the 1920 presidential election, but his candidacy quickly petered out and he was appointed Secretary of Commerce by victorious Republican Warren G. Harding. Hoover was an unusually active and visible cabinet member, becoming known as \"Secretary of Commerce and Under-Secretary of all other departments,\" which helped him win the GOP nomination in 1928. In a shift from Harding, Hoover championed a “lily-white southern strategy” helped by bipartisan widespread anti-Catholicism against Democrat Al Smith. In a time of peace and prosperity, Hoover won a landslide third term for the Republican Party, but that time would soon end. The Great Depression was the central issue of his presidency, starting with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929. There were occasional upswings but more frequent downswings until the economy verged on disaster in 1931–33, along with that of most of the industrial world. Hoover pursued a variety of policies in an attempt to lift the economy, but opposed direct federal relief efforts until late in his tenure. He asked business and labor leaders to avoid wage cuts and work stoppages, and raised taxes in the hope of balancing the budget. In 1930, he reluctantly approved the Smoot–Hawley Tariff, which sent foreign trade spiraling down.

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