John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau
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. Picture courtesy of AP.
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