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J. Edgar Hoover

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
J. Edgar Hoover (John Edgar Hoover), 1895-1972, American administrator, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), b. Washington, D.C. Shortly after he was admitted to the bar, he entered (1917) the Dept. of Justice and served (1919-21) as special assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer . In this capacity he directed the so-called Palmer Raids against allegedly radical aliens. Director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935) after 1924, Hoover built a more efficient crime-fighting agency, establishing a centralized fingerprint... Read more
Hoover, J. Edgar
The Oxford Companion to United States History Hoover, J. Edgar (1895–1972), director, Federal ... and and John Stuart Cox , The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition , 1988. Curt Gentry , J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets , 1991. Athan ... Read more
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
American Decades J. EDGAR HOOVER AND THE FBI A Better Bureau ... several decades after, J. Edgar Hoover was the Federal Bureau ... strained, largely because Hoover felt that Truman was soft ... Truman's last years in office, Hoover sided with HUAC and the ... 1953, on the other hand, Hoover ... Read more

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