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Original photograph of President Herbert Hoover and his cabinet, signed by twelve members of his cabinet. The group portrait, photographed outside the White House, shows the President seated at the center of his cabinet, the signatures appearing in ink along the lower margin of the image. Those signing are President Herbert Hoover, Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, Attorney General William D. Mitchell, Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Commerce Roy D. Chapin, and Secretary of Labor William N. Doak. Framed. In very good condition. A remarkable gathering of signatures from the cabinet of President Herbert Hoover. The entire piece measures 20.5 inches by 15.5 inches. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) served as the thirty-first President of the United States from 1929 to 1933, taking office months before the stock market crash of October 1929 and leading the country into the first years of the Great Depression. A mining engineer who became internationally famous for directing food relief in Europe during and after the First World War, he served as Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge before winning the presidency in 1928. His cabinet included Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, and other leading figures of the era.…