Herbert Hoover was a highly accomplished mining engineer, busine...  ...esidential career, living all the way until 1964. Hoover married well. Lou Henry Hoover , First Lady of the United States, met her future...  ...om that institution with a degree in geology.Lady *strong...

The wife of the president was just that—unti...  ...that—until a gun-toting geologist named Lou Hoover moved into the East Wing. In the spring of 1929,...  ...But now, in the height of the Jim Crow era, Lou Hoover , wife of Herbert , was undeterred. She wanted DePr...