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Roaring Twenties | The Great Crash | 4
American History Tellers
Herbert Hoover - The Great Engineer and the Great Humanist
With coolidge refusing to stand again, the republican party needed to find a new standard bearer. For most the a choice was commerce secretary herbert hoover. Coolidge was well liked, credited for five years of prosperity and peace,. But he had grown tired of the job, and he was still grieving the untimely death of his teen aged son three years earlier. So when the republican party held its convent in june 19 28, hoover won the nomination on the very first ballot for their vice presidential candidate. Party leaders chose kansas senator charles curtis hoping he would win back farmers after coolidge had alienated them by vetoing farm relief legislation the year before.
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