J. Edgar Hoover

Full Name: John Edgar Hoover
Profession: First Director of the FBI

Nationality:

Biography: Built the Federal Bureau of Investigation into a large crime-fighting organisation; but controversy surrounds the power he acquired in doing so, including intimations of secretive actions, blackmail and intimidation - even of US presidents.

Born: January 1, 1895
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA

Generation: Lost Generation
Star Sign: Capricorn

Died: May 2, 1972 (aged 77)
Cause of Death: Cardiovascular disease

Historical Events

1917-07-26 J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1918-12-30 John E. Hoover decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover
1919-12-21 J. Edgar Hoover persuades US to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia
1921-08-22 J. Edgar Hoover appointed Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investigation
1924-05-10 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
1924-06-15 J. Edgar Hoover assumes leadership of the FBI
1936-05-01 FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests gangster Alvin "Creepy" Karpis
1949-01-20 J. Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
1951-03-10 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1953-01-11 J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club
1963-10-31 J. Edgar Hoover's last meeting with President John F. Kennedy
1964-11-18 J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King Jr. as a "most notorious liar"
1964-12-01 Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1971-08-22 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and US Attorney General John Mitchell announce arrest of 20 of the "Camden 28", a religious-left anti-war activist group intent on disrupting the military draft in Camden, New Jersey

Biographies and Sources

Camden 28 revisit court where they were tried for ’71 break-in to protest Vietnam War - WHYY
Remembering the remarkable life of Michael Doyle, priest, pacifist and Camden advocate - Courier Post
The Camden 28 - PBS