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J. Edgar Hoover

1895 - 1972

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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. Edgar Hoover has received more than 15,045,519 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. J. Edgar Hoover is the 5th most popular lawyer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from United States (up from 262nd in 2019) and the most popular American Lawyer.

J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI for nearly 50 years. He is most famous for his role in the FBI's fight against crime and communism.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 5 out of 68. Before him are Hugo Grotius, Al-Shafi‘i, Charles Albert Gobat, and Ulpian. After him are Carlo Buonaparte, Gaius, Louis Renault, Henri La Fontaine, Al-Nawawi, Aemilius Papinianus, and Tobias Asser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 9. Before him are Carl Orff, Juan Perón, Richard Sorge, Buster Keaton, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Anna Freud. After him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Wilm Hosenfeld, Nikolai Yezhov, Ernst Jünger, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Max Horkheimer. Among people deceased in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 7. Before him are Harry S. Truman, Ip Man, Edward VIII, M. C. Escher, Yasunari Kawabata, and Frederick IX of Denmark. After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ezra Pound, Igor Sikorsky, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Franz Halder, and Paul Hausser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 236 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Jordan (1963), Spencer Tracy (1900), Peter Falk (1927), Robert E. Lee (1807), Henry Miller (1891), and Robert F. Kennedy (1925). After him are Philip Kotler (1931), Rita Hayworth (1918), Brigham Young (1801), Ted Kaczynski (1942), John Ford (1894), and Ronnie James Dio (1942).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, J. Edgar Hoover ranks 1. After him are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), James B. Donovan (1916), Warren Christopher (1925), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Roy Cohn (1927), Leo Frank (1884), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), William Rehnquist (1924), Louis Brandeis (1856), and Lawrence Lessig (1961).

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