Herbert Clark Hoover was a well known American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.
Before ruling the United States, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and was the 3rd U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
The correct option is B. The president during the beginning of the Great Depression
<h2><em>Herodotus views history as a source of moral lessons, with conflicts and wars as misfortune. Herodotus, preferred moral lessons and drawing conclusions over fact, making him similar to other popular historians of the time. Thucydides uses factual reports of political and military events, based on eye-witness accounts. Thucydides' view of only factual based reports, was uncommon for the time, neither Thucydides or Herodotus, cited sources.</em></h2>