When the stock market crashed in 1929 leading to the Great Depression, many people blamed the president in office at that time. Who was the president at the start of the Great Depression who served between 1929 and 1933?

Herbert Hoover became the 31st president of the United States in 1929, months before the stock market crash that would cause the Great Depression. Hoover lost his reelection bid in 1932 to Franklin D. Roosevelt, in part because of the public's perceptions that he either caused or couldn't fix the Great Depression. Many poor and displaced people lived in shantytowns and tent cities during this time and people began to call them "Hoovervilles" in reference to President Hoover.

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