- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohn Edgar Hoover
- Nickname
- The Director
- Height5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
- John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed 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 built the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and instituted a number of modernization's to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover also established and expanded a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- The reason why Hoover is known as "J. Edgar" and not "John Edgar" is because there was another John Edgar Hoover living in Washington D.C. who had a bad credit history. In order to avoid confusion and scandal, Hoover started going by his first initial.
- At his death, then President Richard Nixon had Hoover's office and its contents sealed for several months. Reports are that Nixon's first reaction to being told of Hoover's death was, "Are you sure?"
- Was the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 19, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972. Kept files on many political leaders and public figures that contained sensitive and potentially damaging information which he used for blackmail purposes. Ironically, there is strong evidence now that organized crime knew, and had evidence to prove, that Hoover was a secretly active homosexual transvestite and threatened him with exposure unless he took the heat off of their organization and onto some other person or organization. It was then that Hoover decided to focus his efforts at destroying the careers of liberal political and public figures such as Charles Chaplin and political reformers and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King. If true, that may explain why Hoover for decades kept denying that there was any form of national organized crime syndicate in America, and he was forced to admit it only because of the testimony of Mafia killer Joe Valachi before Congress in the early 1960s--which Hoover, as it turned out, had unsuccessfully tried to prevent.
- Hoover's birth certificate was not filed until 1938.
- Member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity (Alpha Nu 1914.)
- [on communism] The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous they cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to the realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
- The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
- Justice is incidental to law and order.
- The minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
- I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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