Hoover dies at Tianjin?

What if Herbert Hoover and his wife were killed during the Boxer Rebellion? How would this have affected American politics as a whole, with a POD coming from 1901?
 
How much of the Belgian relief effort rested solely in Hoover's hands? Because I always hear he was the main force driving the entire affair, and without it, maybe the postwar recovery in that region of Europe might be detrimentally affected.

No idea what sort of repercussions his death might have on domestic politics though. I'm guessing whoever the Republican Party runs in his stead would end up winning anyway, though, since the GOP seemed to be riding high on a booming economy and return to normalcy in that era.
 
Hopefully someone else can raise money for Belgian war relief. Some other Republican is elected in 1928. He could be very conservative and we don't get the Reconstruction Finance Corparation.
 
I think it is interesting that Hoover wouldn't be able to help Belgium, would that effect the war in any meaningful way? And when it comes to 1928, the only other candidates in OTL were Lowden and Curtis, so god knows who will get elected ITTL.
 
Whoever gets elected will probably just end as taking Hoover's place in history. As the transitional president to Franklin Roosevelt
 
Henry Agard Wallace would be a progressive Republican, though he might change if he's working for Roosevelt. In addition, his father might have lived a bit longer. (Henry Cantwell Wallace, Agriculture Secretary was often at odds with Herbert Hoover, Commerce Secretary. Henry A. blamed the stress of their disagreements for his father's death.)
 

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He also did the relief effort for the 1927 Mississippi flood. Hoover not dying will have a large impact on the way we handle natural disasters and war refugees.
 
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