John Edgar Hoover Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Edgar Hoover (January 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.Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI. He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting Presidents. However, according to biographer Kenneth Ackerman, the notion that Hoover’s secret files kept presidents from firing him is a myth.According to President Harry S. Truman, Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him".
Anna Marie Scheitlin, Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr.
Star Sign
Capricorn
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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The minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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Justice is incidental to law and order.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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[on communism] The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous they cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to the realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
When vacationing, the first thing he did was to see if there was a horse track nearby.
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His hobby was betting on horse races.
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The reason why Hoover is known as "J. Edgar" and not "John Edgar" is because there was another John Edgar Hoover living in Washington D.C. who had a bad credit history. In order to avoid confusion and scandal, Hoover started going by his first initial.
Awarded an honorary Sc. D by Kalamazoo College in 1937
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Member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity (Alpha Nu 1914.)
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Graduated from George Washington University in 1917 with a degree in law.
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Hoover's birth certificate was not filed until 1938.
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At his death, then President Richard Nixon had Hoover's office and its contents sealed for several months. Reports are that Nixon's first reaction to being told of Hoover's death was, "Are you sure?"
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Was the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 19, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972. Kept files on many political leaders and public figures that contained sensitive and potentially damaging information which he used for blackmail purposes. Ironically, there is strong evidence now that organized crime knew, and had evidence to prove, that Hoover was a secretly active homosexual transvestite and threatened him with exposure unless he took the heat off of their organization and onto some other person or organization. It was then that Hoover decided to focus his efforts at destroying the careers of liberal political and public figures such as Charles Chaplin and political reformers and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King. If true, that may explain why Hoover for decades kept denying that there was any form of national organized crime syndicate in America, and he was forced to admit it only because of the testimony of Mafia killer Joe Valachi before Congress in the early 1960s--which Hoover, as it turned out, had unsuccessfully tried to prevent.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Operation Abolition
1960
Documentary
TV Reader's Digest
1956
TV Series based upon an article by - 1 episode
Walk East on Beacon!
1952
article The Crime of the Century
Queen of the Mob
1940
book "Persons in Hiding"
Parole Fixer
1940
book "Persons in Hiding"
Undercover Doctor
1939
book "Persons In Hiding"
Persons in Hiding
1939
book "Persons in Hiding"
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Next of Kin
1942
Narrator (prologue and epilogue) (US version)
Casting Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
'G' Men
1935
consultant: casting - uncredited
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The F.B.I.
1970
TV Series appreciation to - 4 episodes
The FBI Story
1959
thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Books
1999
TV Series documentary
Himself
UFO's Are Real
1979
Documentary
Himself - FBI Director
Dillinger
1973
Himself (post-end credits speech) (voice, uncredited)
This Is Your Life
1960
TV Series
Himself
The FBI Story
1959
Himself (uncredited)
Machine-Gun Kelly
1958
Himself, in photo (uncredited)
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
1951
TV Series
Himself - Audience Member
A Day with the F.B.I.
1951
Documentary short Himself
Youth in Crisis
1943
Documentary short
Himself
You Can't Get Away with It
1936
Short documentary
Himself - Director of the FBI of the Department of Justice
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive
2015
Documentary filming
Himself
King Kennedy
2011
Documentary post-production
Himself
UFOs Declassified
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - FBI Director
Freedom Summer
2014
Documentary
Himself
Beat Generation
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Khrushchev Does America
2013
Documentary
Himself, director, FBI
The March
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
America's Book of Secrets
2012-2013
TV Series
Himself
After Newtown: Guns in America
2013
Documentary
Himself - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
10 Things You Don't Know About
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
J. Edgar: The Most Powerful Man in the World
2012
Video documentary short
Himself
Looking for Lenny
2011
Documentary
Himself - Head of the FBI
The Real American: Joe McCarthy
2011
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Kennedys' Home Movies
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Sing Your Song
2011
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
Video documentary
Himself
American Experience
1991-2010
TV Series documentary
Himself
30 for 30
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After
2009
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
2009
Documentary
Himself
King
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Mobsters
2008
TV Series
Himself
Close-up
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
Trumbo
2007
Documentary
Himself
Oswald's Ghost
2007
Documentary
Himself - FBI Head
True Bond
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Director of the FBI
Undercover History
2007
TV Series
Himself
L'inamovible Hoover- le plus grand ripou d'Amérique
2007
Documentary
Himself
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Biography
1995-2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Bîto Takeshi no akuyaku no susume!!
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Dead Men's Secrets
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
National Geographic: The FBI
2003
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Majestic
2001
Himself (targets Communists) (uncredited)
The Real Untouchables
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Kennedys: The Curse of Power
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
1999
Documentary
Himself
The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History
1999
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998
Documentary
Himself
Cold War
1998
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years
1997
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Red Dwarf
1997
TV Series
Himself
American Justice
1996
TV Series documentary
Himself
American Justice: Target - Mafia
1993
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy
1992
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Real Malcolm X
1992
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Discusses FBI Relations with Colored Folk (uncredited)