J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of J. Edgar Hoover
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 until his death in 1972.
Photograph: Associated Press (AP)
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J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 to 1972, is remembered for transforming the “Bureau” into a professional and effective investigative police force but also for using its power against those seen as political subversives. In an article on the FBI first…
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