In the Republic of China, district (Chinese: å; pinyin: QÅ«) is the 3rd level of the administrative division. It is a division of special municipality and provincial city of Taiwan Province. Currently, there are 157 districts in total from 5 special municipalities and 3 provincial cities.
Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, the first of his office born in that state and west of the Mississippi River. His father, Jesse Hoover (1849â1880), was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner, of German (Pfautz, Wehmeyer) and Swiss (Huber, Burkhart) ancestry.
1 Hoover's vice president, Charles Curtis, was largely of Native American ancestry from the Kaw tribe. 2  He was the first president to have a telephone sitting on his desk. 3  He wrote several books including one titled The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson and another called The Principles of Mining.  His middle name was Clark.