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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection, Photograph No. a4490-20a
J. Edgar Hoover
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection, Photograph No. a4490-20a

J. Edgar Hoover

American, 1895 - 1972
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John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force.
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Additional LBJ Library holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://www.discoverlbj.org/solr-search?q=J.+Edgar+Hoover Additional National Archives holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10679508Social Networks and Archival Context record: https://snaccooperative.org/view/75058032