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Walter Friar Dexter (1886-1945) —
also known as Walter F. Dexter —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
21, 1886.
Republican. President,
Whittier College, 1923-34; secretary to Gov. Frank
F. Merriam; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1932;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1937-45; appointed 1937;
died in office 1945.
Quaker. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Lions.
Died October
21, 1945 (age 58 years, 334
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Harry Dexter and Margaret (Bell) Dexter; married, August
25, 1910, to Ethel Lenore Smith. |
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Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) —
also known as Herbert Hoover; "The Great
Engineer"; "The Grand Old Man" —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in West Branch, Cedar
County, Iowa, August
10, 1874.
Republican. Mining engineer;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-28; President
of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker,
Republican National Convention, 1940,
1952,
1960.
Quaker. Swiss and
Dutch
ancestry.
Inducted into the National Mining Hall of
Fame, Leadville, Colorado.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1964 (age 90 years, 71
days).
Interment at Herbert
Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover; married,
February
10, 1899, to Lou
Hoover; father of Herbert
Clark Hoover Jr.; distant cousin *** of Charles
Lewis Hoover. |
| | | Political family: Hoover
family of Palo Alto, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
A. Mann — Walter
H. Newton — Christian
A. Herter — Lewis
L. Strauss — Clarence
C. Stetson |
| | | Hoover Dam
(built 1931-36 as Boulder Dam; renamed 1947), on the Colorado River
between Clark
County, Nevada, and Mohave
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Glendale,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Des
Moines, Iowa, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in San Diego,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Elkview,
West Virginia, is named for
him. — The minor
planets (asteroids) 932 Hooveria (discovered 1920), and
1363 Herberta (discovered 1935), are named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in
every pot." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Herbert Hoover: The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson |
| | | Books about Herbert Hoover: Martin L.
Fausold, The
Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover — Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert
Hoover : Forgotten Progressive — George H. Nash, Life
of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 —
George H. Nash, The
Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies,
1917-1918 — William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert
Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933 — Glen
Jeansonne, The
Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933 —
Kendrick A. Clements, The
Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary,
1918-1928 — David Holford, Herbert
Hoover (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1965) |
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Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) —
also known as Richard M. Nixon; "Tricky
Dick"; "Searchlight" —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Yorba Linda, Orange
County, Calif., January
9, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
Vice
President of the United States, 1953-61; President
of the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for Governor of
California, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Quaker. Member, American
Legion; Order of
the Coif.
Discredited by the Watergate scandal,
as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of
impeachment against him, over obstruction
of justice, abuse
of power, and contempt
of Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly
implicated
him in the Watergate
break-in; with impeachment certain, he resigned;
pardoned
in 1974 by President Gerald
R. Ford.
Died, from a stroke,
at New York
Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1994 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married,
June
21, 1940, to Thelma
Catherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; granddaughter-in-law of Dwight
David Eisenhower); second cousin of John
Duffy Alderson. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Carroll
family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Maurice
H. Stans — John
H. Holdridge — Clark
MacGregor — Harry
L. Sears — Harry
S. Dent — Christian
A. Herter, Jr. — John
N. Mitchell — G.
Bradford Cook — Raymond
Moley — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Nils
A. Boe — Murray
M. Chotiner — Richard
Blumenthal — G.
Gordon Liddy — Robert
D. Sack — Edward
G. Latch — William
O. Mills — Meyer
Kestnbaum |
| | | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's the
One!" |
| | | Epitaph: "The greatest honor history
can bestow is the title of peacemaker." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Richard M. Nixon: RN
: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Beyond
Peace (1994) — 1999:
Victory Without War (1988) — Leaders
(1982) — Memoirs —
Six
Crises (1962) — The
Challenges We Face (1960) — In
the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
(1990) — No
More Vietnams (1985) — The
Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) — Real
Peace (1984) — The
Real War (1980) — Seize
The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World
(1992) |
| | | Books about Richard M. Nixon: Melvin
Small, The
Presidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff, Nixon
Reconsidered — Jonathan Aitken, Nixon
: A Life — Garry Wills, Nixon
Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — Thomas
Monsell, Nixon
on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in
Films, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.
Ambrose, Nixon
: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — Richard
Reeves, President
Nixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris, Richard
Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —
Robert Mason, Richard
Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority — Jules
Witcover, Very
Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon
& Spiro Agnew |
| | | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,
The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Don Fulsom, Nixon's
Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled
President |
| | | Image source: United States Mint
engraving |
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Friend William Richardson (1865-1943) —
also known as Friend W. Richardson; William
Richardson —
of California.
Born in Michigan, December
1, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; California
state treasurer, 1915-23; Governor of
California, 1923-27.
Quaker. Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Modern
Woodmen; Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died, of a heart
ailment, in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., September
5, 1943 (age 77 years, 278
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Chapel
of the Chimes, Oakland, Calif.
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