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J. Edgar Hoover

1895 - 1972

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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American attorney and law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924. After 11 years in the post, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI in June 1935, where he remained as director for an additional 37 years until his death in May 1972 – serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight Presidents. Hoover expanded the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency and instituted a number of modernizations to policing technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. Edgar Hoover is the 14th most popular lawyer (down from 7th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from United States (down from 313th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Lawyer.

J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI for nearly 50 years. He is most famous for his role in the FBI's fight against crime and communism.

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Among lawyers, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 14 out of 136. Before him are Ulpian, Gaius, Al-Nawawi, Aemilius Papinianus, Tobias Asser, and Paul Alexander. After him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Merrick Garland, Rudolf von Jhering, Doug Emhoff, Roy Cohn, and Tribonian.

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Among people born in 1895, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 32. Before him are Anastas Mikoyan, Sergei Yesenin, Henrik Dam, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, André Frédéric Cournand, and Levi Eshkol. After him are Cemal Gürsel, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Ludvík Svoboda, Machine Gun Kelly, and Igor Tamm. Among people deceased in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 17. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah, Paul-Henri Spaak, Igor Sikorsky, Franz Halder, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, and Asta Nielsen. After him are Paul Hausser, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Talal of Jordan, and Andrei Tupolev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 611 out of 20,380. Before him are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), George E. Smith (1930), George Armstrong Custer (1839), Jared Leto (1971), Louise Glück (1943), and George Westinghouse (1846). After him are Nick Nolte (1941), Jim Simons (1938), Howard Gardner (1943), Warren Beatty (1937), Michael Porter (1947), and John Kerry (1943).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 3. Before him are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), and Paul Alexander (1946). After him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), Merrick Garland (1952), Doug Emhoff (1964), Roy Cohn (1927), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Warren Christopher (1925), Scooter Libby (1950), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959), and Judy Sheindlin (1942).

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