Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Hoover has a big concrete dam named after him. As president of the United States he was widely blamed for doing nothing in response to the 1929 stock market crash, leading to the Great Depression, so the dam was temporarily renamed Boulder Dam since there were enough people ticked off at him that they made damn sure no damn dam would be named after him, dammit.

The name reverted back to Hoover Dam during the Eisenhower administration. Some folks today still call it Boulder Dam.

Alas, the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has not yet been renamed Boulder Airport, but hope springs eternal.

Also of interest--Herbert Hoover was the first Republican Party Presidential candidate to lose the African-American vote. This was due to a collection of factors, including the Depression. However, a larger factor was his behavior as the chief of reconstruction during the 1927 flood. He made many promises to African-American communities, including jobs in the reconstruction efforts and further civil rights reforms when he became president, and then backed away from all of them. This, plus FDR's progressive civil rights policies, led to the permanent realignment of the majority of African American voters.