J.J. McCullough Forgotten American Presidents You Probably Never Learned About! Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025 Not every president ends up in the spotlight—some fade ...

But Hoover was, in fact, a U.S. president -- and an interesting one to boot. Orphaned at age 9, he worked and scraped his way into the newly minted Stanford University to study mining engineering.