Son of 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover, businessman, and government official. The first of Herbert and Lou Hoover's two sons, Herbert Charles Hoover (known as "Herbert Jr.") was born in London, England on August 4, 1903. He immediately joined his parents in their globetrotting lifestyle, embarking on a voyage to Australia when he was just five weeks old. As a young man, he took a keen interest in amateur radio. In 1918, a severe attack of influenza left him with impaired hearing, but the scientifically inclined teenager made himself a hearing aid. Guided by these interests in electronics, he studied engineering at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University. After graduating in 1925, he went on to Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. His graduate thesis and Guggenheim Fellowship work was on the economic aspects of the new aviation industry. Following his studies, he took a job as a radio technician with Western Air Express, one of the early airlines. He also founded Aeronautical Radio, Inc., which operated ground stations for airlines. During President Hoover's administration, controversy surrounded Western Air Express, which had government contracts. Herbert Jr. resigned and started United Geophysical, a company that used seismography to search for oil. The company boomed throughout the 1930s despite the Great Depression, and he became one of the best-known men internationally in the oil industry. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as Under Secretary of State in 1954. He remained involved with developing the memorial park around President Hoover's birthplace in West Branch, Iowa, known today as Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. He married Margaret Eva Watson in 1925, and they had three children together. He died on July 9, 1969, a few days after suffering a stroke.
Son of 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover, businessman, and government official. The first of Herbert and Lou Hoover's two sons, Herbert Charles Hoover (known as "Herbert Jr.") was born in London, England on August 4, 1903. He immediately joined his parents in their globetrotting lifestyle, embarking on a voyage to Australia when he was just five weeks old. As a young man, he took a keen interest in amateur radio. In 1918, a severe attack of influenza left him with impaired hearing, but the scientifically inclined teenager made himself a hearing aid. Guided by these interests in electronics, he studied engineering at his parents' alma mater, Stanford University. After graduating in 1925, he went on to Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. His graduate thesis and Guggenheim Fellowship work was on the economic aspects of the new aviation industry. Following his studies, he took a job as a radio technician with Western Air Express, one of the early airlines. He also founded Aeronautical Radio, Inc., which operated ground stations for airlines. During President Hoover's administration, controversy surrounded Western Air Express, which had government contracts. Herbert Jr. resigned and started United Geophysical, a company that used seismography to search for oil. The company boomed throughout the 1930s despite the Great Depression, and he became one of the best-known men internationally in the oil industry. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as Under Secretary of State in 1954. He remained involved with developing the memorial park around President Hoover's birthplace in West Branch, Iowa, known today as Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. He married Margaret Eva Watson in 1925, and they had three children together. He died on July 9, 1969, a few days after suffering a stroke.
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