John Edgar (J. Edgar) Hoover

1895 - 1972  (77 years)

• Name	John Edgar (J. Edgar) Hoover
  Born	1 Jan 1895	Washington DC
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 May 1972	Washington DC
  Person ID	I23262	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	Dickerson Naylor Hoover,   b. 21 Jul 1857, Washington, DC ,   d. 22 Oct 1944, Glenn Dale, Prince George, MD  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Anna Maria Scheitlin,   b. 12 Sep 1859, Washington, DC ,   d. 22 Feb 1938, Washington DC  (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F9053	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  J. Edgar Hoover The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation predecessor to the FBI in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized finger print file and forensic laboratories. .