Lou Henry Hoover
| Lou Henry Hoover | |
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| First Lady of the United States | |
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In role March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933 |
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| President | Herbert Hoover |
| Preceded by | Grace Coolidge |
| Succeeded by | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Lou Henry March 29, 1874 Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | January 7, 1944 (aged 69) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Herbert Hoover (1899–1944) |
| Children |
Herbert Allan |
| Alma mater |
San Jose State University Stanford University |
| Religion | Quaker |
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Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933.
Marrying her geologist and mining engineer husband in 1899, she traveled widely with him, including to Shanghai, China, and became a cultivated scholar and linguist. A proficient Chinese speaker, she is the only First Lady to have spoken an Asian language. She oversaw construction of the presidential retreat at Rapidan Camp in Madison County, Virginia. She was the first First Lady to make regular nationwide radio broadcasts.
Lou Henry was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to banker Charles Delano Henry and Florence Ida Weed. Lou grew up something of a tomboy in Waterloo, as well as Whittier, California, and Monterey, California. Charles Henry took his daughter on camping trips in the hills—her greatest pleasures in her early teens. Lou became a fine horsewoman; she hunted, and preserved specimens with the skill of a taxidermist; she developed an enthusiasm for rocks, minerals, and mining.
She graduated from San Jose Normal School with a teaching credential, now San Jose State University. In 1894 she graduated—as the school's only female geology major at the time— with a B.A. in Geology at Stanford University, where she met Herbert Hoover, who was then a senior.
When Herbert Hoover graduated from Stanford in June 1895, they had decided to delay wedding plans while she continued her education and he pursued his engineering career in Australia. In 1898, the year she graduated from Stanford, Hoover cabled a marriage proposal, which she promptly accepted by return wire.
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