Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
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Hoover, John Edgar, 1895-1972
Hu-fo, 1895-1972
Guver, Dzhon Ėdgar, 1895-1972
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found: Cooper, C.R. Ten thousand public enemies ... 1935.
found: http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe(Dzhon Ėdgar Guver)
found: Info. converted from 678, 2014-08-05(died 2 May 1972)
found: English Wikipedia website, viewed Aug. 5, 2014(John Edgar Hoover (Jan. 1, 1895--May 2, 1972) was 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 fingerprint file and forensic laboratories; born and died in Washington, D.C.)
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1979-09-10: new
2023-03-07: revised
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