Artist: Othmar J. Hoffler (1893–1954)
Herbert Clark Hoover
HOOVER, HERBERT CLARK (1874–1964), inducted 1933
Born in Iowa and raised in Oregon, Herbert Hoover enrolled in Stanford the year the university opened, graduating as a mining engineer. He amassed wealth in mining and was an international consultant in the field. When the nation entered the Great War, President Wilson appointed Hoover to head the Food Administration. He created successful programs to reduce food consumption at home and to provide food overseas, while avoiding rationing. After serving as Secretary of Commerce under presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover was elected thirty-first President of the United States in 1928. Within months of his election, the stock market crashed, and Hoover spent the rest of his time in office combating the Great Depression. He was not reelected. After leaving office, Herbert Hoover continued his work in food relief, headed a commission to reorganize the executive branch of government, and wrote many books.
In addition to Hoover, Grant, and Coolidge—pictured in this guidebook—four other US Presidents were, at one time, represented in the Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Collection: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The portraits of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln were destroyed in the 1934 fire and not replaced. Franklin D. Roosevelt was added after the fire but removed from the collection before it moved to Louisville.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 113