The correct answer is Herbert Hoover
When Germany declared war on France, starting World War I in 1914, the American consul general asked Hoover for help in evacuating struggling tourists. His committee helped 120,000 Americans to return home. After the United States entered the war, President Wilson appointed him head of Food Administration.
He succeeded in reducing the consumption of necessary food abroad and avoided rationing at home, managing to keep the Allies fed. After the end of the First World War, Hoover led the American Relief Administration.
In 1921 he helped Soviet Russia hit by the famine. Criticized for helping Bolshevism, he reportedly responded that twenty million people were starving and that, regardless of their policy, they needed to be fed.
After serving as Secretary of Commerce for Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican presidential candidate in 1928. His election seemed to ensure prosperity. But in a matter of months the stock market crashed and the country spiraled into depression.
The 1929 crisis was caused by industrial and agricultural overproduction, without any demand for it, and by financial speculation on the stock exchange. Both phenomena were favored by the economic liberalism defended by the Republicans. Even with the country on the canvas, Hoover has not abandoned the republican belief that the state is not responsible for intervening in the economy.
