
John Edgar Hoover net worth is
$250,000
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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to 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.Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI. He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting Presidents. However, according to biographer Kenneth Ackerman, the notion that Hoover’s secret files kept presidents from firing him is a myth.According to President Harry S. Truman, Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him". Full Name | John Edgar Hoover |
Net Worth | $250,000 |
Date Of Birth | January 1, 1895 |
Died | 1972-05-02 |
Place Of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
Height | 5' 10" (1.78 m) |
Profession | Writer, Actor, Casting Department |
Work Position | Persons who have lain in state or honor |
Education | George Washington University |
Parents | Anna Marie Scheitlin, Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr. |
Nicknames | J. Edgar Hoover, Hoover, J. Edgar |
Star Sign | Capricorn |
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1 | I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. |
2 | The minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo. |
3 | Justice is incidental to law and order. |
4 | The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. |
5 | [on communism] The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous they cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to the realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. |
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1 | Is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011), Pat Hingle in Citizen Cohn (1992), Richard Dysart in Panther (1995), Bob Hoskins in Nixon (1995), Dylan Baker in Selma (2014), Stephen Root in All the Way (2016), Ernest Borgnine in Hoover (2000) and Billy Crudup in Public Enemies (2009). |
2 | When vacationing, the first thing he did was to see if there was a horse track nearby. |
3 | His hobby was betting on horse races. |
4 | The reason why Hoover is known as "J. Edgar" and not "John Edgar" is because there was another John Edgar Hoover living in Washington D.C. who had a bad credit history. In order to avoid confusion and scandal, Hoover started going by his first initial. |
5 | Is portrayed by Aron Tager in Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) |
6 | Awarded an honorary Sc. D by Kalamazoo College in 1937 |
7 | Member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity (Alpha Nu 1914.) |
8 | Graduated from George Washington University in 1917 with a degree in law. |
9 | Hoover's birth certificate was not filed until 1938. |
10 | At his death, then President Richard Nixon had Hoover's office and its contents sealed for several months. Reports are that Nixon's first reaction to being told of Hoover's death was, "Are you sure?" |
11 | Was the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 19, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972. Kept files on many political leaders and public figures that contained sensitive and potentially damaging information which he used for blackmail purposes. Ironically, there is strong evidence now that organized crime knew, and had evidence to prove, that Hoover was a secretly active homosexual transvestite and threatened him with exposure unless he took the heat off of their organization and onto some other person or organization. It was then that Hoover decided to focus his efforts at destroying the careers of liberal political and public figures such as Charles Chaplin and political reformers and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King. If true, that may explain why Hoover for decades kept denying that there was any form of national organized crime syndicate in America, and he was forced to admit it only because of the testimony of Mafia killer Joe Valachi before Congress in the early 1960s--which Hoover, as it turned out, had unsuccessfully tried to prevent. |
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Operation Abolition | 1960 | Documentary | |
TV Reader's Digest | 1956 | TV Series based upon an article by - 1 episode | |
Walk East on Beacon! | 1952 | article The Crime of the Century | |
Queen of the Mob | 1940 | book "Persons in Hiding" | |
Parole Fixer | 1940 | book "Persons in Hiding" | |
Undercover Doctor | 1939 | book "Persons In Hiding" | |
Persons in Hiding | 1939 | book "Persons in Hiding" | |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Next of Kin | 1942 | | Narrator (prologue and epilogue) (US version) |
Casting Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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'G' Men | 1935 | consultant: casting - uncredited | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The F.B.I. | 1970 | TV Series appreciation to - 4 episodes | |
The FBI Story | 1959 | thanks | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Great Books | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
UFO's Are Real | 1979 | Documentary | Himself - FBI Director |
Dillinger | 1973 | | Himself (post-end credits speech) (voice, uncredited) |
This Is Your Life | 1960 | TV Series | Himself |
The FBI Story | 1959 | | Himself (uncredited) |
Machine-Gun Kelly | 1958 | | Himself, in photo (uncredited) |
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports | 1951 | TV Series | Himself - Audience Member |
A Day with the F.B.I. | 1951 | Documentary short Himself | |
Youth in Crisis | 1943 | Documentary short | Himself |
You Can't Get Away with It | 1936 | Short documentary | Himself - Director of the FBI of the Department of Justice |
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