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J Edgar Hoover rises to power at the FBI
J Edgar Hoover joined the government in 1917 as a law clerk and, by his death, led the FBI for 48 years serving eight presidents. He built a modern agency through discipline and a public relations push, pursuing criminals from Pretty Boy Floyd to John Dillinger and Ma Barker while confronting critics and political pressure.
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Sam Fogg
Washington
UPI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Nixon
Senate
Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Coolidge
Lyndon B. Johnson
Congress
Topnotch Laboratories
Butte
Mont
Justice Department
Harding
Harry Daugherty
Ohio Gang
Harlan Fiske Stone
Daugherty
Teapot Dome
Fred Cook
Bureau
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pretty Boy Floyd
Baby Face Nelson
Ma Barker
John Dillinger
Alvin Karpis
Machine Gun Kelly
Pretty Boy
Kansas City
Kelly
Memphis
Tenn
Oklahoma
Dillinger
Indiana
Chicago
Anna Sage
East Chicago
Biograph Theater
Karpis
Public Enemy No. 1
New Orleans