WI: Herbert Hoover doesn't go into politics.

He would be remembered as a great man and a great role-model. Many would have wished he was their President in the depths of the Great Depression.
 
Depends upon whether or not Dawes and Coolidge had the catastrophic falling-out that they did IOTL. An apolitical Hoover could lead to untold clouds of butterflies, one of which might be that Dawes isn't late getting into the chair in the Senate to break a tie vote in 1925. He failed to do so IOTL, which pretty much soured his relationship with Coolidge permanently. Had that not happened, perhaps as colorful a character as Charles Dawes might well have been a presidential candidate in 1928. If elected, he'd have been the first candidate from a financial/banking background, so who knows what he might have done to stave off or mitigate a depression?
 
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