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{{Quote| | {{Quote|The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.|J. Edgar Hoover}} | ||
'''John Edgar Hoover''' (January 1<sup>st</sup>, 1895 - May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor of the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. | '''John Edgar Hoover''' (January 1<sup>st</sup>, 1895 - May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor of the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. | ||