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LOU HOOVER

Name: Lou Henry Hoover                                                             
Born: March 29, 1874 Waterloo, Iowa                                                 
Died: January 7, 1944 Spouse Herbert Hoover                                         
                                                                                     
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 - January 7, 1944) was the wife of Herbert         
Hoover and First Lady of the United States.                                         
                                                                                     
Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover brought to it   
long experience as wife of a man eminent in public affairs at home and abroad.     
She had shared his interests since they met in a geology lab at Stanford           
University. She was a freshman, he a senior, and he was fascinated, as he           
declared later, "by her whimsical mind, her blue eyes and a broad grinnish smile."