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POTUS Photus - Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was the last cabinet secretary to become president. He served as Commerce Secretary to President Calvin Coolidge before winning the presidency in 1928. His term would be marred by the stock market crash of 1929. He would run for reelection in 1932 against New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and lose. Democrats would run against Hoover for a generation. President Harry Truman would help rehabilitate Hoover's image by putting him to work overseeing what the US needed to do to help Germany recover and later to help reorganize the federal departments of the government. Hoover died in 1964, until his death he had the longest retirement post-presidency until Jimmy Carter surpassed him in September 7, 2012. He was also the second longest-lived president after John Adams, both were surpassed by Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

Herbert Hoover
31st POTUS
1929-1933
California
Republican

POTUS Photus - Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States on August 2, 1923, after the death of Warren Harding. Coolidge was the incumbent Governor of Massachusetts, when he was elected the 29th vice president in 1920. Coolidge became the second successful vice president that ascended to the presidency after the death of a president to go on to become elected in his own right in 1924. Theodore Roosevelt was the first twenty years prior. Coolidge was the 3rd vice president to succeed to the presidency after the president died of natural causes, while he's the 6th to succeed because of death, aka an assassin's bullet. Coolidge was a conservative president in a prosperous America becoming a favorite of the man ten president more, Ronald Reagan. Whereas Reagan was known as the Great Communicator, Coolidge was more of a quiet guy with the nickname Silent Cal. This was a president known for not saying much. The famous story of a dinner guest sitting next to President Coolidge at a dinner goes like this...The guest leans over to the president and tells him that she bet a friend she could get the president to say more than two words. Coolidge says, "You lose."

Calvin Coolidge
30th POTUS
August 2, 1923-1929
Massachusetts
Republican