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J. Edgar Hoover  

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  • J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972) was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for forty-eight years, serving under every president from Calvin Coolidge to Richard M. Nixon. His supporters praised him for building the FBI into one of the world’s outstanding law-enforcement agencies. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Hoover, J. Edgar]

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