noun
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
• Syn: ↑Hoover, ↑Herbert Clark Hoover, ↑President Hoover
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑President of the United States, ↑United States President, ↑President, ↑Chief Executive
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(1874–1964) the 31st US ↑President (1929–33) and a member of the Republican Party. He had earlier been the US Secretary of Commerce (1921–9). A year after he became President, the ↑Great Depression began and people blamed him because his government failed to stop it. Franklin D Roosevelt defeated him in the 1932 election. After ↑World War II Hoover directed the European Food Program.
See also ↑Hooverville
Useful english dictionary. 2012.