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Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1895 - 1972-05-02

Biographical Note

From Wikipedia:

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) 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 over 47 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.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Francis M. Shea Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-010
Scope Note

Correspondence, meeting minutes, essays and reports, conference materials, federal legislation, grant applications, reference materials, personal information, newspaper clippings, relating to the Judicial Conference Committee on Laws Pertaining to Mental Disorders. This is the collection of Francis M. Shea, who was Chairman of the Committee from 1964 to 1970.

Dates: 1955 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1970