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Coolidge reassured the public in the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal and was overwhelmingly reelected in 1924. When Coolidge chose not to run in 1928, the nominee was Herbert Hoover.

[[image - black and white photograph of a Hoover stamp]]

Hoover worked hard to solve the economic problems of the depression by establishing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Home Loan Bank System. He strengthened the Federal Land Banks and the Federal Reserve Board. But Hoover, nevertheless, became the scapegoat of a discontented electorate and lost the 1932 election to Franklin Roosevelt. 

[[image - black and white photograph of Herbert Hoover]]
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HERBERT HOOVER
(Depression President)
1928-1932
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[[image - black and white photograph of Herbert Hoover standing in front of a crowd of people holding what may be a baseball]]

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