ABSTRACT
The path lay open for a new Republican candidate, and when the Republicans met in Kansas City, they nominated on the first ballot Herbert Hoover, food administrator during World War I and secretary of commerce in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. To assuage farmers, who viewed the business-oriented Hoover as insensitive to agri-
Herbert Hoover cultural interests, the party chose as its vice presidential candidate 1874-1964 Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis of Kansas.
