Was the Hoover dam made for president Hoover?

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover brokered the 1922 Colorado River Compact to divide the water proportionally among the seven states, but the legal wrangling continued until outgoing President Calvin Coolidge authorized the Boulder Canyon Project in December 1928. read more

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. read more

Herbert Hoover played a pivotal role in the creation of the dam from its inception as a proposal in Congress in 1923, The Boulder Dam Project Act, when he was Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce, eventually, succeeding Coolidge as President of the United States in 1929. read more

Hoover Dam. The Story of Hoover Dam - Articles. Herbert Hoover and the Colorado River. Herbert Hoover - The Man. Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, was a man of many interests. He was an engineer, a conservationist, a fisherman, a humanitarian, and a politician, not always in the same order. read more