One of the first things President Hoover did to combat the effects of The Great Depression was to try to get the Federal Reserve Act repealed. The Federal Reserve Act set limits on how much money the Reserve could release into the economy.
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Hoover was the president when the Great Depression hit.
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Herbert Hoover took office seven months before the Great Depression started.
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When FDR took office as President, the US was in the middle of the Great Depression, and also had struggling with Prohibition, so it was a time of widespread poverty and unemployment along with a proliferation of gangs selling alcohol. The country was in turmoil, and practically begging to get Herbert Hoover out of office.
The only U.S. Presidents who died during the Great Depression were former Presidents William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge. Herbert Hoover, the President when the Great Depression began in October, 1929, died in October, 1964 at the age of 90, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was President when the depression was ended by the U.S. involvement in World War II, died just before the end of the war, in April, 1945.
Herbert Hoover who took office in March 1929, some six months before the Wall Street Crash.No Franklin was president
Herbert Hoover was president from 1929 to 1933. He took office March 4, 1929, just months before the stock market crash in October 1929.