Hoover's Hometown is
Historic West Branch, Iowa

Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States of America (March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933), was born in West Branch on August 10, 1874 to Quaker blacksmith Jesse Clark Hoover and his wife, Hulde Minthorn Hoover.

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Sites:

• Presidential Library and Museum

• Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (NPS)

  • Hoover’s birthplace cottage

  • Hoover's gravesite

  • Blacksmith shop

  • Friends Meetinghouse

  • Schoolhouse

  • Statue of Isis

• 16 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Branch's Commercial Historic District