One pivotal figure in American political history briefly embodied the noblest aspirations for technocracy—President Herbert ...

At its center was an American who in 1928 was elected president of the United States: Herbert Hoover. In the summer of 1914, Hoover had been a highly successful American mining engineer living in ...

President Herbert Hoover remains the only U.S. president ... Hoover began working as an international mining engineer and a financer. He amassed his wealth through mining. Hoover worked for ...

Or at least, in theory, it sort of does. In 1919 Herbert Hoover — then a 45-year-old multimillionaire, mining engineer, and veteran of efforts to save the starving of Europe and Russia following ...

Herbert Hoover had been given the nickname, "The Great Engineer," due to his managerial and coordinating skills. Expectations were high as he began his presidency. It soon became obvious ...

On the outskirts of London, a Georgian country house that was the first “White House” President Herbert Hoover ... At the time, Hoover was employed by the London-based mining company Bewick ...

The mining engineer turned politician resided at the Surrey residence in 1902, almost two decades before he moved into the White House in Washington, D.C.