Mr. Hoover was not related to President Herbert C. Hoover.
Herbert W. Hoover Jr., a former chairman of the Hoover Company, the vacuum cleaner maker that his grandfather founded at the turn of the century, died Monday in Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. He lived in Bal Harbour, Fla., and was 79.
Starting with summer jobs on the assembly line, Mr. Hoover moved through sales and executive posts to the presidency of the family company, based in North Canton, Ohio, in 1954, succeeding his father.
Five years later he became chairman, and he served as the company's top executive until September 1966, when he was ousted in a management dispute.
The Hoover Company no longer is owned by the founding family, which sold it in 1986 to the Maytag Corporation. Maytag was bought by Whirlpool for $1.7 billion in 2006.
After leaving the company, Mr. Hoover moved to South Florida, where he developed a second career as an environmentalist, particularly concerned with marine pollution in Biscayne Bay.
He donated his yacht to show the beauty of the bay to influential political leaders and gave $100,000 to a campaign that, until then, had been directed by grass-roots activists. He helped fund numerous water-quality studies, including those that forced Florida Power & Light to modify plans for a nuclear plant.
Mr. Hoover's Ohio-based Hoover Environmental Group is active in a national campaign to prevent offshore oil drilling. The organization collected more than 120,000 signatures in Florida to halt offshore oil exploration here.
Mr. Hoover, born in North Canton, graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., and from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Military Service: Army
He is survived by his wife, Carl Good Hoover; a son, Herbert W. Hoover III; a daughter, Elizabeth Chase, and three grandchildren.
Herbert W. Hoover Jr., a former chairman of the Hoover Company, the vacuum cleaner maker that his grandfather founded at the turn of the century, died Monday in Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. He lived in Bal Harbour, Fla., and was 79.
Starting with summer jobs on the assembly line, Mr. Hoover moved through sales and executive posts to the presidency of the family company, based in North Canton, Ohio, in 1954, succeeding his father.
Five years later he became chairman, and he served as the company's top executive until September 1966, when he was ousted in a management dispute.
The Hoover Company no longer is owned by the founding family, which sold it in 1986 to the Maytag Corporation. Maytag was bought by Whirlpool for $1.7 billion in 2006.
After leaving the company, Mr. Hoover moved to South Florida, where he developed a second career as an environmentalist, particularly concerned with marine pollution in Biscayne Bay.
He donated his yacht to show the beauty of the bay to influential political leaders and gave $100,000 to a campaign that, until then, had been directed by grass-roots activists. He helped fund numerous water-quality studies, including those that forced Florida Power & Light to modify plans for a nuclear plant.
Mr. Hoover's Ohio-based Hoover Environmental Group is active in a national campaign to prevent offshore oil drilling. The organization collected more than 120,000 signatures in Florida to halt offshore oil exploration here.
Mr. Hoover, born in North Canton, graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., and from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Military Service: Army
He is survived by his wife, Carl Good Hoover; a son, Herbert W. Hoover III; a daughter, Elizabeth Chase, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Hoover was not related to President Herbert C. Hoover.
Herbert W. Hoover Jr., a former chairman of the Hoover Company, the vacuum cleaner maker that his grandfather founded at the turn of the century, died Monday in Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. He lived in Bal Harbour, Fla., and was 79.
Starting with summer jobs on the assembly line, Mr. Hoover moved through sales and executive posts to the presidency of the family company, based in North Canton, Ohio, in 1954, succeeding his father.
Five years later he became chairman, and he served as the company's top executive until September 1966, when he was ousted in a management dispute.
The Hoover Company no longer is owned by the founding family, which sold it in 1986 to the Maytag Corporation. Maytag was bought by Whirlpool for $1.7 billion in 2006.
After leaving the company, Mr. Hoover moved to South Florida, where he developed a second career as an environmentalist, particularly concerned with marine pollution in Biscayne Bay.
He donated his yacht to show the beauty of the bay to influential political leaders and gave $100,000 to a campaign that, until then, had been directed by grass-roots activists. He helped fund numerous water-quality studies, including those that forced Florida Power & Light to modify plans for a nuclear plant.
Mr. Hoover's Ohio-based Hoover Environmental Group is active in a national campaign to prevent offshore oil drilling. The organization collected more than 120,000 signatures in Florida to halt offshore oil exploration here.
Mr. Hoover, born in North Canton, graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., and from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Military Service: Army
He is survived by his wife, Carl Good Hoover; a son, Herbert W. Hoover III; a daughter, Elizabeth Chase, and three grandchildren.
Herbert W. Hoover Jr., a former chairman of the Hoover Company, the vacuum cleaner maker that his grandfather founded at the turn of the century, died Monday in Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach. He lived in Bal Harbour, Fla., and was 79.
Starting with summer jobs on the assembly line, Mr. Hoover moved through sales and executive posts to the presidency of the family company, based in North Canton, Ohio, in 1954, succeeding his father.
Five years later he became chairman, and he served as the company's top executive until September 1966, when he was ousted in a management dispute.
The Hoover Company no longer is owned by the founding family, which sold it in 1986 to the Maytag Corporation. Maytag was bought by Whirlpool for $1.7 billion in 2006.
After leaving the company, Mr. Hoover moved to South Florida, where he developed a second career as an environmentalist, particularly concerned with marine pollution in Biscayne Bay.
He donated his yacht to show the beauty of the bay to influential political leaders and gave $100,000 to a campaign that, until then, had been directed by grass-roots activists. He helped fund numerous water-quality studies, including those that forced Florida Power & Light to modify plans for a nuclear plant.
Mr. Hoover's Ohio-based Hoover Environmental Group is active in a national campaign to prevent offshore oil drilling. The organization collected more than 120,000 signatures in Florida to halt offshore oil exploration here.
Mr. Hoover, born in North Canton, graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., and from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Military Service: Army
He is survived by his wife, Carl Good Hoover; a son, Herbert W. Hoover III; a daughter, Elizabeth Chase, and three grandchildren.
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