WEST BRANCH, Iowa (KCRG) - Our Town West Branch is the birthplace of the only president from Iowa: Herbert Hoover. It also sits on a national park that also bears his name. Steps away sits the ...

It’s all part of West Branch’s annual Hoover days, celebrating the birthplace and birth month of President Herbert Hoover. “This was actually played on the white house lawn in the 20s ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.

the Hoover Birthplace Committee of 1939 and the Hoover Birthplace Foundation, which started in 1954, joined forces in 1957 as the Herbert Hoover Foundation Inc. to reproduce the blacksmith shop ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site ... site where the nation’s 31st president was born. The Hoover birthplace has identified $3 million in deferred maintenance needs ...

Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.