Politics Kelci, Sam, and Dalia Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president of the United States Born in Iowa, enrolled in Stanford, and graduated as a mining engineer He got married to Lou Henry They moved to China and worked there for a while.It is said that he once risked his life to save a child He was blamed by many for the downward pull towards the Great Depression bythe crashing the stock market Franklin D Roosevelt FDR was born in 1882 in New York.He attended Harvard and Columbia Law School. He married Eleanor Roosevelt on Saint Patricks Day, 1905. He was the thirty-second president of the United States. He was a Democrat, but he admired his fifth cousin, Theodore, who had served a few terms before him. He greatly helped lessen the effects of the Great Depression. He served four terms!