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Hoover’s archival collections and library holdings contain information on US domestic and foreign business enterprises and investments and economic and commercial relationships in a number of key areas and industries, including agriculture, natural resources, manufacturing, and military and defense sectors. The materials also address challenges in global trade during periods of conflict and cooperation.
Secretary of commerce, 1921–28; US president, 1928–33
US diplomat
Chairman, US Interstate Commerce Commission, 1973–79
Economist, American Metals Climax, 1966–75
US economist; member, Economic Intelligence Service, 1931–37M
Founder, American Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai
US consular officer, concerned with trade relations with the Soviet Union, China, Egypt, and Malaya
Chairman, US Federal Trade Commission
US businessman in Mexico
US-British political scientist and historian
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives recently acquired the personal papers of Song Feiqing (1898—1956), best known for his role in modern China’s industrialization and promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in China.
Hoover has recently opened most of a major collection on modern Venezuela, beginning more than two decades before the election of Hugo Chavez as president in December 1998 and continuing through 2008. It includes notes, correspondence, printed matter and video tapes on economic, social and political conditions in Venezuela over more than three decades.
