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J. Edgar Hoover

He was the first Director of the FBI.

December 6, 2022

He was the first Director of the FBI.

J. Edgar Hoover

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December 6, 2022

He he had several cairn terriers.

J. Edgar Hoover

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J. Edgar Hoover

American law enforcement officer and first director of the FBI

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John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States and an American law enforcement administrator. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

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