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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

1874 CE–1964 CE · Washington, D.C.

Herbert Hoover was the 31st President, serving from 1929 to 1933 as a Republican. An engineer who had directed major humanitarian relief efforts after World War I, he took office months before the stock market crash of October 1929. His single term was dominated by the onset of the Great Depression.

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Washington, D.C.

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About Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, James A. Garfield

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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Herbert Hoover’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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