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 ...

Most expected an easy desk job pushing papers though ... “It was the greatest triumph of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to date,” ...

Hoping for another chance at glory, he applied for a job with J. Edgar Hoover’s budding ... day before Prohibition ended—Hoover sat with the file at his desk. Across a memo reporting the ...

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 ...