The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show with their inaugural gowns.

Herbert Hoover — a successful engineer, humanitarian and a former secretary of commerce who had never before held elective office — was inaugurated on this day in 1929 as the nation’s 31st ...

Thousands of people gather in the rain for the inauguration of President-elect Herbert C. Hoover on the East Portico of the Capitol in Washington. The President Moves In.

Jared Cohen, bestselling author, reveals the full life of President Herbert Hoover, who accomplished a great deal during his post-White House years — far beyond the Great Depression and ...

Folder 7 Herbert Hoover Inaugural Medal, 1976-1977. Contains correspondence with the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, concerning borrowing a 1929 Hoover gold inaugural medal.

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding. Hoover ...

Opinion: The U.S. presidents targeted by political violence include the only Iowan to hold the office, Herbert Hoover, writes ...

This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which can be assumed by an American citizen. It is a dedication and consecration under God to the highest office in service of ...

1933: Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt Like Bush, Hoover would attend just one inauguration as a new president before losing to a Democrat four years later.

In this exceptionally clear and detailed photograph, we see three AT&T engineers testing the equipment that will be used for the NBC radio broadcast of the inauguration of President Herbert Hoover on ...

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- With an extraordinary display of Republican pageantry, Herbert Hoover was today made the 30th president of the United States.

On Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a ...