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Herbert Hoover: “It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of William Howard Taft, which occurred at his home in the City…”

On the recordMarch 7, 1930
It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of William Howard Taft, which occurred at his home in the City of Washington, on the eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, at five-fifteen o'clock in the afternoon.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Proclamation 1901—Announcing the Death of William Howard Taft

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