Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States of America. Two strange objects had been found, and he was the man that had to figure out what to do with them.

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Herbert and his wife Lou were in China when the Boxer Rebellion broke out in the final days of the 19th Century. Left unable to escape the country, the pair went underground as intelligence operatives, rescuing gentleman adventurer Theodore Joseph Wells from some rebels in 1900. Wells worked closely with the Hoovers for the remainder of the rebellion, and the trio was still in China in 1902, when word came from America that Wells's organization had discovered a mysterious metal cube in the Colorado River. Wells brought the Hoovers back to the States with him in hopes that Herbert's mining expertise and Lou's metallurgical skill could be put to use analyzing the find.

Herbert formulated a method of diverting the river so the cube could be excavated, but it took nearly a decade for this to be accomplished. In 1913, the intervention of Jetfire foiled the initial extraction of the cube, causing a release of its energy that brought several nearby machines to life. Herbert and Lou defeated the newborn monsters by breaking open Herbert's floodgates, returning the river to its original course and "drowning" them.

Herbert proceeded to take up a political career over the next decade, using his position to reorganize and formally dub the group Sector Seven in 1927. He proceeded to run for President and was successfully elected into office in 1929, after which he orchestrated the construction of the Hoover Dam to serve as a permanent enclosure for the cube. Irreplaceable