Hoover & Stevenson
There are several famous people depicted and commemorated on this page of just a few stamps. I wasn’t sure which I wanted to research and describe. I settled on two: Herbert Hoover and Adlai Stevenson since I didn’t know much about either, although I had heard of both as a child.
Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president of the U.S. One of the first graduates of Stanford University, he became a financially successful mining engineer – probably the only president with that background, although there were three U.S. Supreme Court judges that graduated from Stanford.
Leading into World War I and afterwards, he worked in government providing food and other relief to people in Europe and in particular in Russia. He was called upon domestically to assist in disaster relief projects. He had a good reputation for administering humanitarian and recovery programs. However, shortly after becoming president, the Great Depression began. Although he did what he could to pull the country out of the dire economic situation, he was blamed for not doing enough to prevent it or to resolve it. He lost his re-election bid to Franklin Roosevelt. Future presidents, though, recruited him to administer more projects to help with the improvement of the country.
Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson II was governor of Illinois in the early 1950s. Later in the 1950s, he was twice the Democrat nominee for president, losing both times to the Dwight Eisenhower. Incidentally, his grandfather, Adlai Stevenson I was the U.S. Vice President under Grover Cleveland.
He tried for the presidency a third time, but lost the nomimation to John Kennedy. Kennedy, though, made Stevenson the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a position he held during the first term of both President Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson – until his death in 1965. Stevenson was well known for his confrontation of the Soviets during the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Note
This is another colorful, well drawn set of stamps. I also like that they issued around sixteen stamps each year, all comfortably containable in one album page. In later years there are dozens of stamps spanning several album pages for just one year. I know there’s plenty to commemorate, but it’s too much. Plus, it’s mostly to make money off of collectors who buy everything they print and never expect mail service for them. There are countries that use their postage stamps as a major source of revenues, selling stamps to foreigners who’ll never go there or mail a letter.
Contains 17 spots: own 16 – 16 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 26, 2025
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
1261 |
5c (jan 1965) |
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✓ |
1262 |
5c (feb 1965) |
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✓ |
1263 |
5c (apr 1965) |
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✓ |
1265 |
5c (jun 1965) |
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✓ |
1264 |
5c (may 1965) |
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✓ |
1268 |
5c (jul 1965) |
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✓ |
1267 |
5c (jul 1965) |
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✓ |
1269 |
5c (aug 1965) |
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✓ |
1275 |
5c (oct 1965) |
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✓ |
1266 |
5c (jun 1965) |
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✓ |
1271 |
5c (aug 1965) |
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✓ |
1273 |
Elizabeth Clarke |
5c (sep 1965) |
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✓ |
1270 |
5c (aug 1965) |
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✓ |
1272 |
5c (sep 1965) |
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✓ |
1274 |
11c (oct 1965) |
Christmas & Holidays
✓ |
1276 |
5c (nov 1965) |
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1276a |
Angel Weather Vane |
5c (nov 1963) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
