On the contrary, should Herbert win in Indiana—or even poll a big vote against the Watson faction—it would simply stall the whole engine of the anti-Hoover machine.

On this day in history, Oct. 22, 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden ...

On this day in 1928, Herbert Hoover won the US presidential election, ushering in an era of disastrous economic policies.

Herbert Clark Hoover never spent a more eventful week than last. He listened attentively at the radio, nodded approvingly as Senator Smoot droned the G. O. Platform into the Missouri microphones ...

The Register reports on Nov. 7, 1928, that Herbert Hoover has been elected president. Iowa-born Hoover, a Republican, is the only Iowan ever to have occupied the Oval Office. He serves just one ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1928, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Alfred E. Smith is today, according to all indications, the worst defeated Democratic candidate since the Civil War. Herbert Hoover ...

A millionaire businessman becomes President in this first try at an elected office. That’s one of 10 fascinating facts about Herbert Hoover, one of the most-interesting occupants of the White House.

In 1932, the parents of a 4-year-old went to court to change his legal name. Christened Herbert Hoover Jones in 1928, when the commerce secretary and Republican presidential nominee was a national ...