who was president during the depression?
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President Herbert Hoover. However he gravely underestimated the severity of the crisis, even announcing to U.S. Congress on December 3, 1929, that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash were behind them, and that the U.S. public had regained faith in the economy.
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george w. bush\ngeorge bush\nGerald ford\njames polk\nwilliam taft
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FDR was a lawyer.  Before he was President he was the Governor of New York.
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Hard times can make a great President.  Lincoln is considered great because of what he accomplished in a very bad time.  He freed the slaves and brought the country back together.\n\nPolitics can color judgement on this too.  FDR is considered great by Democrats.  He certainly changed the way our nation operates.  And I would concede that he was a great wartime President.\n\nBut, being a conservative, I'm going to have to say that Reagan was the best.  He changed the world by bankrupting European communism.  He had some success in deregulating our country, and his economic policies never get enough credit for pulling our country out of the stagflation trap of the late 70's.
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland :\n\nStephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. He was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination between 1860 and 1912, and was the first Democrat to be elected after the Civil War.\n\nCleveland's portrait was on the U.S. $1000 bill from 1928 to 1946. He also appeared on a $1000 bill of 1907 and the first few issues of the $20 Federal Reserve notes from 1914.
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Yes, past US Presidents.  George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln--in that order from left to right.
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 and ending in the mid or late 1930s. Almost all countries were affected. The worst hit were the most industrialized, including the United States, Germany, Britain, Europe, Canada, and Japan. Cities around the world were hit hard, especially those based on heavy industry. Construction virtually ended in the United States and other countries. Farmers and rural areas suffered as prices for crops fell by 40-60%. Mining and lumbering areas were perhaps the hardest hit because demand fell sharply and there was little alternative economic activity.
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Warren G. Harding was the President who succeeded Wilson. He wasn't very good at it.\n\nAlso, do your own homework.
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Oh my goodness yes!! FDR was the man, he's seriously one of my all-time favorite presidents...maybe my favorite. He made such significant changes when he was in office...things that are still relevant to this day. Because of him we have trust in the banks and he's the reason that the parties "switched" their priorities. FDR was definitely amazing. :)
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William H. Taft  # 27 President\nPresidental term : 1909-1913\nLived : 1857 1930\nBorn : Ohio\nElected : from Ohio\nOccpation : Lawyer\nParty : Republican
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technically, calvin coolidge served the 30th presidential term, but because grover cleveland served twice, herbert hoover was the 30th unique president
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I would have to say FDR & Winston Churchill with World War II. Harry Truman finished up with his policies towards the end of the War. Truman said America wouldn't make any profits off of War and suffering of oppressed nations from the results of World War II. FDR helped America pull it's self out of the depression with his politics, and administration of laws. Churchill followed suit in the U.K..
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Dwight D. Eisenhower\n\n"John Rogers, a resourceful Reagan aide now nominated to be undersecretary of state for management, found in an attic pieces of the old cork floor from the Oval Office. Some had cleat marks from Dwight Eisenhower's golf shoes (his putting green was just outside the Oval Office). Rogers put them in lucite with the inscription: "This fragment of cork was part of the floor installed in the White House Oval Office in 1934. The floor supported six Presidents of the United States before it was removed in 1969."
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Brazil Wenceslau Braz (1914-1918)\nJapan two prime ministers On October 9, 1916, Terauchi Masatake (1852–1919) took over as prime minister from Okuma Shigenobu (1838–1922).\nUnited States Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). \nWell dont be lazy and go to Wikipedia.
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Reagan. He gave America back it's pride. Had another weak president followed Carter, Ford, and Nixon this country would be much less than it is.
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In attacking the Great Depression he did much to develop a partial welfare state in the United States and to make the federal government an agent of social and economic reform. His administration indirectly encouraged the rise of organized labor and greatly invigorated the Democratic party.
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President Herbert Hoover entered office to much acclaim.  Aside from satirists, the majority of the American public liked him, mostly because of his humanitarian work in China, Europe, and Russia.  Hoover was believed to know the answers to all questions.  However the stock market crash of October 1929 proved all of Hoover’s supporters to be wrong.\n\nHoover was the last president of the triple republican 1920s.  He was to take over after Harding and Coolidge, two men who did nothing and are regarded as some of America’s worst presidents.  Thus, all Harding really had to do was surpass Coolidge’s apathy a small bit to gain the approval of the public.\n\nThe stock market crash proved Hoover’s inability to be the president.  He was not successful in attempting to end the depression.  The Hawley-Smoot Tariff simply magnified the problem, and spread the depression to other countries.  The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was not as successful as could have been imagined.\n\nIn addition, it is essential to realize that Hoover’s name was detestably used to describe the effects of the Depression.  Hoovervilles (slums built by the unemployed), Hooverflags (empty inside-out pockets), and Hooverblankets (using newspapers as blankets).  This indicates that Hoover was not well liked by the people after the Depression hit.\n\nThe manner in which Hoover handled the Bonus Army was very distasteful.  Although the veterans were protesting in an unruly manner, it is never appropriate for a president to order the military to attack veterans.  The entire ordeal was poorly handled, and is a huge demerit when considering Hoover’s overall rating.\n\nFinally, Hoover was unable to improve the economy while the depression was still in its early stages.  Instead, he passed laws which did little, if anything to help ease the problem. Sometimes, as in the case of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Hoover actually ended up hurting America further.  Basically, Hoover was not able to employ apathy like his predecessor, but his actions were unsuccessful.\n\nBasically, Hoover was a president who was unable to control the problems which were occurring in the country.  He failed to heal the social problems which he hoped to as entering office.  As a whole, his administration was a failure.  He was not able to continue to do worldwide humanitarian work like before his presidency because the United States was in such bad condition.  For all of the aforementioned reasons, I believe Herbert Hoover was not a very effective president.  He is somewhat redeemed (for two points) because he was widely lauded as an excellent president when he was elected, and he did a little bit of good before the Great Depression crippled the nation.