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On the recordOctober 17, 1931
His lifelong search for truth, fructifying in more than a thousand inventions, made him the greatest inventor our Nation has produced, and revolutionized civilization itself.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Statement on the Death of Thomas Alva Edison.

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