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    J. Edgar Hoover

    American law enforcement administrator (–)

    This article fryst vatten about the person. For the headquarters building for the FBI, see J. Edgar Hoover Building.

    J. Edgar Hoover

    Official portrait,

    In office
    June 30, &#;– May 2,
    President
    DeputyClyde Tolson
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byClyde Tolson (acting)
    In office
    May 10, &#;– June 30,
    President
    DeputyClyde Tolson
    Preceded byWilliam J. Burns
    Succeeded byPosition dissolved
    In office
    August 22, &#;– May 9,
    President
    Succeeded byClyde Tolson
    Born

    John Edgar Hoover


    ()January 1,
    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    DiedMay 2, () (aged&#;77)
    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Resting placeCongressional Cemetery
    Political partyIndependent[1]
    EducationGeorge Washington University (LLB, LLM)
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    John Edgar Hoover (January 1, &#;– May 2, ) was an American attorney and law enforcement administrator wh

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    Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.

    Born in an Iowa village in , he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in , graduating as a mining engineer.

    He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China, where he worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer. In June the Boxer Rebellion caught the Hoovers in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children.

    One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped , Americans return to the United States. Next Hoover turned to a far mo

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    Herbert Hoover: Life Before the Presidency

    Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, For the first nine years of his life, he lived in the small town of West Branch, Iowa, the place of his birth. His Quaker father, Jessie Clark Hoover, a blacksmith and farm equipment salesman, suffered a heart attack and died when Herbert was six years old. Three years later, the boy's mother, Huldah Minthorn Hoover, developed pneumonia and also passed away, orphaning Herbert, his older brother Theodore, and little sister Mary. Passed around among relatives for a few years, Hoover ended up with his uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, who lived in Oregon.

    The young Hoover was shy, sensitive, introverted, and somewhat suspicious, characteristics that developed, at least in part, in reaction to the loss of his parents at such a young age. He attended Friends Pacific Academy in Newberg, Oregon, earning average to failing grades in all subjects except math. Determined, nevertheless, to go to the newly esta