American law enforcement administrator who led the Bureau of Investigation and its successor the FBI from 1924 to 1972, building it into a scientific crime fighting agency through a centralized fingerprint file and the FBI Laboratory, which he established in 1932.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountEstablished the FBI Laboratory in 1932 and expanded the Bureau's fingerprint files into the largest collection of its kind; became the Bureau's director in 1924 and the first Director of the renamed FBI in 1935, not its 1908 founder. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Led the Bureau from 1924 (Director from 1935) to 1972 and established the FBI Laboratory in 1932; Stanley Finch, not Hoover, founded the agency in 1908.
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1. Wikipedia: J. Edgar Hoover
Depression-era gangsters sectionQuote, Depression-era gangsters section
expanding and combining fingerprint files in the Identification Division, to compiling the largest collection of fingerprints to date
1. Wikipedia: J. Edgar Hoover
Associated With: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Depression-era gangsters section, fingerprint expansionQuote, Associated With: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Depression-era gangsters section, fingerprint expansion
In 1939, the FBI became pre-eminent in domestic intelligence, thanks in large part to changes made by Hoover, such as expanding and combining fingerprint files
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