Herbert Hoover Historical Figure Nationality: United States Religion: Quaker Date of Birth: 1874 Date of Death: 1964 Cause of Death: Natural Causes Occupation: Engineer, Author, Politician Spouse: Lou Henry Hoover Children: Herbert Clark Hoover Allan Henry Hoover Affiliations: Republican Party Turtledove Appearances: The Man With the Iron Heart POD: May 29, 1942; Relevant POD: May, 1945 Type of Appearance: Contemporary references "Joe Steele" POD: 1878 Type of Appearance: Contemporary references Southern Victory POD: September 10, 1862 Appearance(s): The Center Cannot Hold through The Victorious Opposition Affiliations: Democratic Party

Herbert Hoover in The Man With the Iron HeartEdit

Herbert Hoover's defeat in 1932 had helped drag down the whole of the Republican Party at the national level, leaving them as the minority party for over a decade. While the Party had been making gains starting in the early 1940s, it wasn't until 1947, with the Truman Administration's inability to defeat the German Freedom Front, in spite of the defeat of Germany proper, that the Republicans were able to regain the majority.^[1]

Herbert Hoover in "Joe Steele"Edit

Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. His failure to end the downward spiral into deep depression during his term led to his defeat in the 1932 election at the hands of Democrat Joe Steele.

Hoover was the last Republican elected to the presidency, as Steele slowly but surely built up the powers of his office until he was effectively the dictator of the United States.

Herbert Hoover in Southern VictoryEdit

Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States from 1933 to 1937, the first Democrat president in 12 years. His was an accidental presidency: he was the running mate for Calvin Coolidge, but Coolidge died before the inauguration, leaving Hoover to assume the office.

Born in Iowa,^[2] Hoover was raised in California.^[3] Growing up in the period of U.S. history characterized by "Remembrance", Hoover served two years as a conscript before the turn of the century. Hoover had demonstrated an aptitude for science from a young age. During the Great War, and the U.S. fight against the Confederate States, Hoover served as a major in the army corps of engineers.^[4]

Hoover was nominated as vice presidential candidate by the Democrats in 1932.^[5] Despite the prosperity of the country under Socialist President Upton Sinclair after the Great War, the fortunes of the country had fallen dramatically under Sinclair's successor, Hosea Blackford. The bull-market that had characterized most of the 1920s had finally crashed in 1929.^[6] Blackford was unable to deal satisfactorily with the resulting depression. In 1932, the United States found itself in the Pacific War against Japan.^[7] While the war was largely a stalemate on the ocean, Japan ran a successful air-raid on the city of Los Angeles on the very day Blackford was in-town for a rally.^[8]

Thus, when Hoover was nominated to run with presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge, the Democrats were in the strongest position they had been in for over a decade. Coolidge defeated Blackford handily. However, Coolidge died while still president-elect,^[9] leaving Hoover, an unknown quantity, to be sworn in as president.

Despite some of the initial optimism expressed by the voters, Hoover quickly proved a disappointment. His complete contempt for "paternalism" in the federal government rendered him just as ill-equipped to handle the economic depression as Blackford had been. He made this opinion known when Colonel Abner Dowling, the then-military governor of Utah, proposed a make-work plan for the state.^[10] Hoover flatly refused, despite the fact that the jobless rate in Utah was further exacerbating that already-precarious situation.^[11] This stance led the voters to return the Socialists to Congress in 1934.

Hoover's handling of foreign affairs also frustrated many of his supporters in the military. While he continued the policy of rearmament begun by Blackford, the Pacific War ended inconclusively in 1934.^[12] After Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party came to power in the C.S., Hoover proved indecisive in his dealings with the United States' long-time enemy. When Featherston pressed for permission to arm more troops to suppress black uprisings,^[13] Hoover (after a period of vacillation) acquiesced, justifying his decision by citing his concerns about "radical" elements among the black Confederate community, and naively concluding that Featherston would not use the increased military against the U.S.^[14]

While Hoover did stand strong against Featherston on the rebellious states of Kentucky and Houston,^[15] which the U.S. had taken from the C.S. following the Great War, it was too little, too late. Growing dissatisfaction with Hoover led to the election of Al Smith to the presidency in 1936.^[16]

One of Hoover's last official duties included acting as pallbearer at Hosea Blackford's funeral.^[17]

See AlsoEdit

• Al Smith, whom Hoover defeated in the 1928 election in OTL. Smith defeats Hoover in the 1936 election in Southern Victory.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Hoover in the 1932 election in OTL. Roosevelt is also depicted (somewhat counter-intutively) as Hoover's Secreatary of War in the Southern Victory series.

ReferencesEdit

v · d · e The Man With the Iron Heart POV Characters Wes Adams*†• Vladimir Bokov • Bernie Cobb • Jerry Duncan • Frankfurt Guard*• Rolf Halbritter* • Reinhard Heydrich† • Ivan Koniev*† • Konrad* • Diana McGraw • Cedric Mitchell* • Ernst Neulen*† • Joachim Peiper • Charlie Pytlak*† • Tom Schmidt • Smitty (Iron Heart)* • Jürgen Voss*† • Lou Weissberg Secondary Characters Konrad Adenauer • Toby Benton • Shmuel Birnbaum • Lucius Clay • Howard Frank • Johannes Klein • Joseph W. Martin • Ed McGraw • Sam Rayburn • Moisei Shteinberg • Robert Taft • Harry Truman • Karl Wirtz Geography Germany *=Denotes POV for one scene only. †=Denotes POV who was killed.

v · d · e Southern Victory Books How Few Remain The Great War (American Front • Walk in Hell • Breakthroughs) American Empire (Blood and Iron • The Center Cannot Hold • The Victorious Opposition) Settling Accounts (Return Engagement • Drive to the East • The Grapple • In at the Death) 1 of 11 Add photo POV Characters Reggie Bartlett • Flora Blackford • Sam Carsten • Samuel Clemens • Anne Colleton • Tom Colleton • George Custer • Frederick Douglass • Jerry Dover • Abner Dowling • Cincinnatus Driver • George Enos • George Enos, Jr. • Sylvia Enos • Jake Featherston • Lucien Galtier • Armstrong Grimes • Thomas Jackson • Roger Kimball • Abraham Lincoln • Cassius Madison • Paul Mantarakis • Chester Martin • Arthur McGregor • Gordon McSweeney • Irving Morrell • Jonathan Moss • Leonard O'Doull • Jefferson Pinkard • Mary McGregor Pomeroy • Michael Pound • Clarence Potter • Stephen Ramsay • Hipolito Rodriguez • Jorge Rodriguez • Theodore Roosevelt • Scipio • Alfred von Schlieffen • Nellie Semphroch • Jeb Stuart Countries United States • Confederate States • Canada • Mexico • Republic of Quebec • Britain • France • Russia • Germany • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • Japan Events War of Secession • Second Mexican War • Great War • Pacific War • Second Great War Politicial Parties Democratic Party • Socialist Party • Republican Party • Whig Party • Radical Liberal Party • Freedom Party

v · d · e President of the United States OTL George Washington · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · James Monroe · John Quincy Adams · Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · William Henry Harrison · John Tyler · James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · Millard Fillmore · Franklin Pierce · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln · Andrew Johnson · Ulysses S. Grant · Rutherford B. Hayes · James A. Garfield · Chester A. Arthur · Grover Cleveland · Benjamin Harrison · Grover Cleveland · William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Warren G. Harding · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Harry S. Truman · Dwight D. Eisenhower · John F. Kennedy · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · George H. W. Bush · Bill Clinton · George W. Bush · Barack Obama Southern Victory Abraham Lincoln · Samuel J. Tilden · James G. Blaine · Alfred Thayer Mahan · Thomas Brackett Reed · Theodore Roosvelt · Upton Sinclair · Hosea Blackford · Herbert Hoover · Al Smith · Charles W. La Follette · Thomas Dewey Worldwar Franklin D. Roosevelt · Cordell Hull · Earl Warren · Harold Stassen · Joyce Peterman Miscellaneous Joe Steele ("Joe Steele") · John Nance Garner ("Joe Steele")  · J. Edgar Hoover ("Joe Steele") · James Buchanan ("Lee at the Alamo") · Abraham Lincoln ("Lee at the Alamo"; "Must and Shall") · Hannibal Hamlin ("Must and Shall") · Franklin D. Roosevelt (Days of Infamy series; "News From the Front"; The War That Came Early) · Harry Truman (The Man With the Iron Heart) · Harris Moffatt I, II, and III ("Vilcabamba")