John Edgar Hoover Bibliography

The historical person I chose to discuss in this paper is John Edgar Hoover.
John Edgar Hoover was the first director of The Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was the most important factor in the creation of the FBI in 1935. He remained the director of the FBI until his death in 1972. He was well connected politically and was considered to be extremely efficient and well organized. John Edgar Hoover was born on January 1, 1895. His father passed away when he was young and his death severely lowered the finances in the family’s household. Hoover was forced to get a job and found work at the Library of Congress. During his time at the Library of Congress, he also studied law at George Washington University. Hoover graduated in 1917 and found work with the Justice Department. He quickly worked his way up through the ranks and, in two years, became Special Assistant to the Attorney General. He spent his early years in the Justice Department, heading an organization which gathered evidence on communists in America, which led to arrests and deportation. Hoover would later work in the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the FBI under his supervision. He also helped introduce new innovations to police technology, such as centralized finger print files and forensic laboratories. J. Edgar Hoover accomplished many things as the director of the FBI during his reign. Although he was an intricate part of crime fighting during his time, he gained a reputation for political persecution. He seemed to hold vendettas against people who he believed embraced communism. Some people, who were not even political figures, were targeted by Hoover. Such people included Martin Luther King Jr., Charles Chaplin, and the Black Panther Party. Some of his targets seemed simply to come from his personal beliefs. J. Edgar