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    J. Edgar Hoover

    American law enforcement administrator

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  1. Oct 28, 2020 · Nearly 40 years after the death of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, research may reveal that the crime fighting bureau chief was actually African-American according to “The Washington...

  2. Sep 27, 2022 · J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D.C., to Anna Marie (née Scheitlin; 1860–1938), who was descended from a line of Swiss mercenaries, and Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr. (1856–1921), of English and German ancestry.

  3. Nov 26, 2011 · Edgar Hoover was a black man passing for white,” says Millie McGhee, an African-American living in Southern Maryland, who has written two books Secrets Uncovered: J.Edgar Hoover-The Relative ...

  4. Hoover expanded the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency and instituted a number of modernizations to policing technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover also established and expanded a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List.

  5. Aug 14, 2000 · Another Hoover biographer, Curt Gentry, says he came across nothing about Hoover's black ancestry in preparing his 1991 book, J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and His Secrets.

  6. Sep 6, 2015 · J. Edgar’s father had German and English roots. There is some dispute as to whether J. Edgar’s father had African-American ancestry, although it appears that no African-American ancestors have been explicitly and verifiably identified for J. Edgar’s father.

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