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.
In the 1929 presidential election he won in 40 of the 48 states. When he became president it was the first elected office he had ever held. Hoover was the first US President born west of the Mississippi. Since President Hoover was a Quaker he did not take an oath of office. He affirmed his presidency. Hoover was the first president to mention crime in a inaugural address. (Bootlegging and Al Capone were in the news at that time.). Herbert Hoover was the first president to have a telephone right on his desk.