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This Geoart is part of a Nationwide project:
THE USA 50 STATE STAR GEOART
celebrating every state in the USA !

Our Goal is to have a "50 STATE STAR" in each state of the USA.
Look for the states that proudly display the "STAR" !

Herbert Hoover & Henry Wallace. :
 

• Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. He was orphaned at age 9.
• Hoover entered Stanford University during it's inaugural year, and lays claim to being the University's first student, having been the first student to sleep in the dormitory before classes started.
• During and after World War One, Hoover organized food relief for war victims in Europe and ran campaigns for the war effort in the US.
• Hoover was Secretary of Commerce prior to becoming president. The last cabinet member to become president. One of two presidents elected without having held a prior elected position.

• Henry A. Wallace was Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Secretary of Commerce under both Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.
• He was born in Orient, Iowa and lived in several cities in Iowa.
• George Washington Carver stayed with the Wallace family while he attended Iowa State University. Wallace often accompanied Carver on nature walks to identify native prairie plants.
• Carver's influence led to Wallace experimenting with plant cross-breeding and hybridization.
• Wallace founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, later becoming Pioneer Hi-Bred.