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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.
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J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day in Washington,...
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Apr 3, 2014 · John Edgar Hoover was born January 1, 1895, to Dickerson Naylor Hoover and Annie Marie Scheitlin Hoover, two civil servants who worked for the U.S. Government. He grew up literally...
J. Edgar Hoover, U.S. public official who, as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, built that agency into a highly effective, if occasionally controversial, arm of federal law enforcement.
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- J. Edgar Hoover was a United States government official who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 until his dea...
- J. Edgar Hoover joined the Department of Justice as a file reviewer in 1917. Two years later, he became special assistant to Attorney General A. Mi...
- After J. Edgar Hoover was named director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924, he reorganized and rebuilt the organization. He started recrui...
- J. Edgar Hoover retained his post as FBI’s chief until his death at age 77, by which time he had been the chief for 48 years and had served 8 presi...
- In the late 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Hoover the task to investigate both foreign espionage in the United States and the activiti...
J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day in Washington, DC. His parents were Dickerson Naylor Hoover (1856-1921) and Anna "Annie" ( née Scheitlin) Hoover. Dickerson Hoover's family was English and German.
Jun 18, 2010 · J. Edgar Hoover (1885‑1972) was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 48 years, reshaping that organization into a highly effective investigative agency.
John Edgar Hoover was born January 1, 1895 in Washington, D.C. to Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr. and Annie Marie Scheitlin Hoover. Hoover, like his father and grandfather, was a life-long resident of the District of Columbia, and he never traveled outside the U.S. Hoover had a brother, Dickerson, Jr., 15 years older; and a sister, Lillian, 12 ...
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John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C. on January 1, 1895. Upon completing high school, he began working at the Library of Congress and attending night classes at George Washington...
