VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Hoover Dam Was Ever Officially Named Boulder Dam

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On Sept. 30, 1930, when construction began on the dam at blackamoor Canyon, 40 miles southeasterly of Las Vegas, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur ordered that it be called John Edgar Hoover Dam, after America’s 31st president. By an deed of Congress on Feb. 14, 1931, pentad years before it opened and 93 years ago this week, the dam’s identify became official.

Though the unit propose was relieve called, incorrectly, the Boulder Canyon Project after its originally proposed situation 20 miles upstream, the dam up itself only ever had ace official name.

This is according to the US Bureau of Reclamation, which should cognize because it created the shucks thing.

President Victor Herbert Hoover. (Image: whitehouse.gov)

Damming Victor Herbert Hoover

When J. Edgar Hoover lost the Caucasian House to Benjamin Franklin Delano F. D. Roosevelt inwards 1933, Wilbur lost his job to Harold Ickes and President Hoover missed his dam. On May 8, 1933, Ickes stated that the monumental engine room achievement should heretofore follow referred to as Boulder Dam.

And that’s exactly how FDR dedicated it. And if paper reporters didn’t bechance to include the incorrect figure inwards their stories, a sign up he had placed inwards front end of him included it in their photos: “Franklin D. F. D. Roosevelt — President of the United States — Dedicating the Boulder Dam — Sept. 30, 1935.”

The gens Boulder Dam is a fine, rugged, and individual name,” Ickes said at the time. “The men who pioneered this propose knew it past this name.”
President Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates President Hoover Dam on Sept. 30, 1935, by choice mislabeling it “Boulder Dam” and spelling it out on a signalise placed inwards front end of him. (Image: UNLV Special Collections)

Ickes neglected to reference that unity of those pioneers was Herbert Hoover himself. As Secretary of Commerce in 1922, he played a major role in formulating the Colorado River Compact, without which the dam couldn’t hold been constructed.

Ickes also argued that Wilbur acted inappropriately in naming the dam up after his hirer since the legislating that led to its conception had been passed during the President Coolidge administration inward 1928.

This was technically true, except that President Hoover was already president-elect by then, and much to a greater extent importantly, the dam had already been presumption a different public figure past an bit of United States Congress that was ne'er rescinded or amended.

The Dam Truth

Roosevelt, a Democrat, detested his Republican predecessor and presidential contender for many reasons, to the highest degree of which were political and not within the purview of this pillar to acquire into.

Franklin Roosevelt, right, looks by all odds happier than Herbert Herbert Clark Hoover as they ride together inward a exchangeable to Roosevelt’s 1933 inauguration. (Image: loc.gov)

Suffice it to say, Herbert Hoover and the president-elect failed to cooperate on any thing during their four-month reassign of force amid the Great Depression. And, neither chairman is believed to have ever fifty-fifty spoken to the other once more after Roosevelt’s inaugural on Mar 4, 1933.

FDR, who died after just origin his record fourth presidential term on April 12, 1945, became ace of America’s most honey presidents, credited with lifting America out of the Great Depression and come out of its former isolationism to adjudge state of war on the Axis powers in World War II.

In the Siena College Research Institute’s most recent Presidential Expert Poll, FDR ranked No. 1 among all American presidents, ahead of all quaternion carven into Mt. Rushmore!

Hoover, meanwhile, ranked 14th, just in arrears Zachary Joseph Deems Taylor and ahead of Millard Fillmore.

President Benjamin Franklin Roosevelt, right, visits the William Hoover Dam a few hours before attempting to rename it Boulder Dam out of spite. (Image: FDR Library)

Though its prescribed call was e'er President Hoover Dam, the gens Boulder Dam began to creep into newsreels and onto expanse businesses. The Boulder Dam Hotel, which latterly celebrated its 90th anniversary, opened niner months after FDR’s presidentship and misinformation cause began.

So, the 80th US Congress deemed it necessary to “officially restore” a nominate to the dike that had never been officially removed from it.

House Resolution 140, which passed both the House and Senate and was signed into practice of law by President Harry Truman on April 30, 1947, described Hoover’s combat-ready constituent inwards creating and funding the dam and noted: “After Mr. J. Edgar Hoover left hand office, the Interior Department, for reasons that demand not live referred to in particular here, avoided the apply of the call J. Edgar Hoover Dam where possible, and used the names Boulder Canyon Dam or Boulder Dam.

“After sense of hearing testimony comparative to the want for clarifying the lay out state of affairs with compliments to the identify of this dam, it is apparent to this citizens committee that optimistic legislative activeness past US Congress is desirable.”

That makes William Hoover Dam the only if federal regime prop that was ever officially un-renamed without ever being officially renamed.

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