Index to Locations
Bennett Inland Cemetery
Tipton Masonic Cemetery
Tipton Red Oak Cemetery
West Branch Herbert Hoover National
Historic Site
West Branch West Branch Municipal
Cemetery
Inland
Cemetery
Bennett, Cedar County, Iowa
Masonic
Cemetery
Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa
Politicians buried
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William Penn Wolf (1833-1896) —
also known as William P. Wolf —
of Tipton, Cedar
County, Iowa.
Born in Harrisburg, Stark
County, Ohio, December
1, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; superintendent
of schools; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member
of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1863-64, 1881-85; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1884-85; member of Iowa
state senate, 1867-69; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1870-71; district judge in
Iowa 18th District, 1895-96; died in office 1896.
Died in Tipton, Cedar
County, Iowa, September
19, 1896 (age 62 years, 293
days).
Interment at Masonic Cemetery.
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Spencer Gale Frink (1861-1943) —
also known as Spencer G. Frink —
of Tipton, Cedar
County, Iowa.
Born in Dayton, Cedar
County, Iowa, January
6, 1861.
Republican. Bank
cashier; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1924
(alternate), 1928.
Died in Muscatine, Muscatine
County, Iowa, October
7, 1943 (age 82 years, 274
days).
Interment at Masonic Cemetery.
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Red Oak
Cemetery
Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa
Politicians buried
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Robert Gordon Cousins (1859-1933) —
also known as Robert G. Cousins —
of Tipton, Cedar
County, Iowa.
Born near Tipton, Cedar
County, Iowa, January
31, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1886; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1893-1909.
Died in Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa, June 20,
1933 (age 74 years, 140
days).
Interment at Red Oak Cemetery.
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Herbert Hoover
National Historic Site
West Branch, Cedar County, Iowa
Politicians buried
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![Herbert Hoover](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/988/79.86.jpg) |
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.
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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. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Hoover
family of Palo Alto, California. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Cross-reference: Horace
A. Mann — Walter
H. Newton — Christian
A. Herter — Lewis
L. Strauss — Clarence
C. Stetson |
| ![](hand.gif) | 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. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in
every pot." |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| ![](hand.gif) | Books by Herbert Hoover: The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson |
| ![](hand.gif) | 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) |
| ![](hand.gif) | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1965) |
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Lou Hoover (1874-1944) —
also known as Lou Henry —
Born in Waterloo, Black Hawk
County, Iowa, March
29, 1874.
First
Lady of the United States, 1929-33.
Female.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died soon after, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
7, 1944 (age 69 years, 284
days).
Original interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.; reinterment in 1964 at
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.
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West Branch
Municipal Cemetery
West Branch, Cedar County, Iowa
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