J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant ...

J. Edgar Hoover is mostly remembered as the dominant force of the FBI. But he really got his start in 1919. He was 24 when he got a job at the Justice Department and was handed the position of ...

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Emily Maitlis explores the life and legacy of J Edgar Hoover ... (Photo: circa 1945, American criminologist John Edgar Hoover (1895 - 1972), the Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of ...