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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site Wooden benches inside a Quaker meetinghouse.
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
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"My grandparents and my parents came here in a covered wagon. In this community they toiled and worshipped God. They lie buried on your hillside. The most formative years of my boyhood were spent here. My roots are in this soil. This cottage where I was born is physical proof of the unbounded opportunity of American life."

Herbert Hoover

 
A small, white, frame cottage in the spring with a pink-flowering shrub in the foreground.
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Herbert Hoover was born in this two-room cottage in 1874.

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Photograph of Herbert Hoover as an infant.

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Herbert Hoover was the first person born west of the Mississippi River to become president. Seven other presidents were born west of the river.
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