J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement administrator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Edgar Hoover was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation . Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as director of the Bureau of Investigation—the FBI's predecessor—in 1924, and in 1935 Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI, where he remained director for 37 years until his death in 1972. Hoover expanded the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency and instituted a number of modernizations to policing technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover also established and expanded a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List.
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