J. Edgar Hoover

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J. Edgar Hoover - United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

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Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover--The Man and the Secrets, The Director, etc.) Hoover was, without question, a dedicated leader who built a rag-tag minor division of the Justice Department into the famous criminal investigation institution that it became by the 1970s.

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(40.) Richard Gid Powers, "Hoover, J. Edgar", American National Biography (Oxford University Press, New York City, 1999), Vol.