GeoByte1:Herbert Hoover was a member of the first class of Stanford University. He earned a degree in engineering in 1895.
GeoByte2:As a 23-year-old engineer, Hoover helped develop one of the world's richest gold mines.
GeoByte3:The first political office Herbert Hoover ever ran for was the presidency.
GeoByte4:Herbert Hoover was the first U.S. president born west of the Mississippi River.
GeoByte5:Hoover was born in 1874, not long after the end of the Civil War. He died in 1964 at age 90, in an era when jet travel was becoming commonplace.