Herbert Charles Hoover Jr. (August 4, 1903 - July 9, 1969) is an engineer, entrepreneur, and politician. He served as US Secretary of State from 1954 to 1957. His father was President Herbert Hoover.
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Biography
Initial years, 1903-1928
Herbert Charles Hoover was born in London on August 4, 1903. He was the eldest son of President Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) and First Lady Lou Henry (1874-1944). He was named for his father, Herbert, and his maternal grandfather, Charles Delano Henry, but throughout his life was known as Herbert Hoover Jr. His father, an engineer, was in London working for Bewick, Moreing & amp; Co. At the age of two, Herbert Jr. has traveled the world twice. One of his earliest memories was to ride a horse-drawn carriage with gold with his father in Australia. The family lived near Stanford University when he was growing up, and he was very proud to serve as a water boy for the Stanford Indians football team. During the 1918 flu pandemic, Hoover contracted influenza, which made him suffer from hearing loss that affected him for the rest of his life. Hoover became interested in radio sets at the age of 14. He attended his father's alma mater, Stanford University, graduated with a degree in general engineering in 1925. He then studied at Harvard Business School and obtained a Master of Business Administration with distinction before winning a scholarship from Daniel Guggenheim Fund to study the aviation economy. His work focuses on the radio economy in the aviation sector.
Aviation Radio, 1928-1930
In 1928, Herbert Jr. was employed by Western Air Express to set up his communications system. Over the next year and a half, he set up a network of stations across the West USA that could guide a radio-equipped plane along the 15,000 miles of airways. As head of Western Western Express communications, he soon managed a staff of 75 engineers and oversaw the purchase of over $ 200,000 of radio equipment. In June 1930, he was promoted to chief engineer of Western Air Express. During his time with Western Air Express, he is primarily located in Alhambra, California, but also frequent visits to airline headquarters in Los Angeles. In 1929, Western Air Express, Boeing and American Airways formed a non-profit company, Aeronautical Radio Inc. to serve as the sole licensee of the aviation industry and radio communications coordinator outside the government. (Pan American World Airways and Curtiss-Wright also agreed to participate.) Hoover was elected as the first president of Aeronautical Radio Inc., a choice that caused Time magazine Hoover put on its July 14, 1930 cover.
Geophysics engineer and advisor to foreign governments, 1930-1953
Hoover does not live in Western Air Express, however. During the 1930 election, there were rumors that Western Air Express only won certain government contracts because of Hoover's status as president's son, and said that Hoover's progress was more due to his famous name than his talent. Hoover submitted a letter of resignation in response to the allegations. Shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and he spent 1931 recovery, first in Rapidan Camp, then in Asheville, North Carolina. After his recovery, he briefly returned to the airline, then taught business economics to aviation engineering students at the California Institute of Technology. He and his brother Allan also bought Herbert Hoover's Birthplace at this time.
Hoover's interest in radio further transformed him into exploration geophysics, and radio use for oil prospects. He founded United Geophysical, headquartered in Pasadena, California, in 1935 and in 1939 he had 200 employees working in five laboratories that perfected the art of exploring oil by seismology. In 1937, he founded a related company, Consolidated Engineering Corporation, which focused on manufacturing instruments.
Hoover's hearing loss made him ineligible to serve in the United States armed forces during World War II.
In 1943, Venezuelan President IsaÃÆ'as Medina Angarita invited Hoover to advise the Venezuelan government in negotiating oil contracts with foreign governments. While there, Hoover oversees the rewriting of Venezuela's oil laws, which will become a model for other countries in the coming years.
In 1944, the new Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, hired the Hoover company to advise the Iranian government in negotiating new oil concessions. At the time, the only oil company operating in Iran was the Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company, operating under the terms of the D'Arcy Concession, renegotiated in 1933. After the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, Standard Oil, Socony- Company The Vacuum Oil, Sinclair Oil Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, and the Soviet Union all sought access to Iran's oil fields. Hoover gave the Iranian government technical advice on the size of their oil reserves to allow the Iranian government to negotiate a fair deal.
United Geophysical was later purchased by Union Oil, although Hoover remained president of the company. Engineering consolidation became public in 1945 and Hoover sold all its stock.
Special Envoy, 1953-1954
After the Abadan Crisis and Iran's 1953 coup, September 1953, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Hoover to travel to Iran as a special envoy to try to broker a deal between the United States. , Britain and Iran. US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked Hoover to make a deal within 45 days; Hoover eventually lived in Tehran for eleven months. He finally made a deal in which, in August 1954, the National Petroleum Company of Iran became a 40% -owned consortium by the Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company; 40% divided equally (8% each) among the five major American companies; British Petroleum has a 40% share; Royal Dutch Shell owns 14%; and Compagnie FranÃÆ'§aise des PÃÆ' Â © troles, French Company, received 6%. Iran now gets 25% of its profits compared to 20% of the original agreement with AIOC. Officials at the US State Department praised Hoover's behavior during this negotiation as the biggest single-person performance since the work of John Foster Dulles during negotiations on the San Francisco Agreement.
Under the Secretary of State, 1954-1957
Eisenhower was impressed by Hoover's performance as well. Eisenhower now asks Hoover to become Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Hoover agreed and, after confirmation of the Senate, he would serve as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 4 October 1954 to 5 February 1957. Hoover was initially criticized for his appearance, especially because his hearing impairment caused his perception of rude and his insistence on perfection gave rise to the perception that he doubted- doubt. Because of the frequent Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles often suffered from illness, Hoover often became the Secretary of State, and in this capacity made two decisions widely perceived as missteps: (1) he rejected the Chinese demand in April 1955 to negotiate treaties that could prevent war between the two countries; and (2) uncertainty about whether to send 18 tanks to Saudi Arabia in the winter of 1955 on Israeli objections. By the end of 1956, however, Hoover was generally considered to have studied the work, and was seen as a capable manager when Dulles was hospitalized.
Amateur radio
Hoover is an amateur radio operator that holds the W6ZH call. He was elected President of American Relay League Radio in 1962; the main representative organization of amateur radio operators to the US government.
Years later, 1957-1969
Hoover died at his apartment in Pasadena on July 9, 1969 after a massive stroke. He suffered a sudden stroke three days earlier on July 6 and was never conscious. For additional information, see Eisenhower, 1956, David A. Nichols, Simon & amp; Schuster, 2011.
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Family
Herbert Charles Hoover married Margaret Ava Watson. They have 3 children: Margaret Ann Hoover (1926-2011), Herbert "Pete" Hoover III (1927-2010) and Joan Leslie Hoover (1930-2002).
References
Amateur Radio Info: http://oldqslcards.com/w6zh.pdf
External links
- Herbert Hoover Jr. in the Search of the Mausoleum
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