Happy Birthday Herbert Hoover

[kensmind]

On August 10, 1874 (149 years ago today) Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa (where today you can visit the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. It is also where Hoover is laid to rest). Hoover was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River. He was the son of

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[oxymoron67]

Grant Wood was commissioned by the Iowa Republican Party to paint Herbert Hoover's birthplace (I sww it in person several years back when the Whitney had a Grant Wood retrospective), and Wood had a sense of humor.

Here is the painting and the story behond it.