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John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), and actually helped found it from its predecessor (Bureau of Investigation) in 1935. He also built the FBI into the large, efficient crime-fighting agency it is, and bettered police technology, like adding a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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DevinJ. Edgar Hoover, the first and most controversial FBI Director, was also arguably the most influential of them all. When the former Justice Department worker was made head of the Bureau in 1924, agents could not investigate crimes across federal boundaries and did not have the authority to arrest suspects. Hoover's reforms led to the creation of a new, much more powerful FBI and the adoption of scientific crime fighting methods against spies and American criminals. His agents were responsible for ending the careers of notorious criminal masterminds like John Dillinger and "Machine Gun" Kelly as well as Soviet agents such as Harry Gold and David Greenglass. His paranoia and smear tactics may have been infamous, but without Hoover there definitely would not have been a modern FBI.
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Who is father of auditing?
Hoover, J. Edgar
Did john Edgar Hoover have kids?
it was never recorded that J Edgar Hoover had children. He was a life long bachelor.
Who was J Edgar Hoover's lover?
Mrs. Catherine 3 romanov hoover
What man was the leader of the federal bureau of investigation during the Palmer's raids?
Edgar J Hoover was in charge.
Whose name is most closely associated with the FBI?
J. Edgar Hoover's name is most closely associated with the FBI. He served as the Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, making him the longest-serving director in the bureau's history. Hoover is credited with transforming the FBI into a modern law enforcement agency.
