His successes included the highly publicized killing of bank robber John Dillinger and other high-profile shootouts. In the s and s, Hoover and the FBI led efforts to infiltrate and dismantle left-leaning political organizations, and his tactics — burglary, inciting criminal activity, secret wiretaps, planting false evidence and interception of mail without a warrant — often crossed over into legally questionable or outright illegal activity.
Hoover was known to occasionally bet — illegally, since Washington, D. This is one reason why, critics say, Hoover for decades discounted the idea of a national Mob of organized crime. Hoover insisted local police should take the lead in going after gambling, prostitution, drug-smuggling and Prohibition-era alcohol rackets. Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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Early this same day, Russian Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov accepts the surrender of the German capital. Edgar Hoover — was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, serving under every president from Calvin Coolidge to Richard M. Photo by Marion S. Trikosko, , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Hoover was a lifetime resident of Washington, D. After earning a law degree from George Washington University in , he joined the Department of Justice.
He served — as special assistant to the attorney general, A. When Coolidge became President, Hoover was appointed head of what was then the Bureau of Investigation. In President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the FBI wide intelligence and counterespionage functions. These powers originally were directed largely against the Nazis.
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