J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant, middle ...

John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, DC in 1895 and spent most of his life there. His final resting place is near his childhood home, by Capitol Hill. Washington through and through, it's ...

J. Edgar Hoover is mostly remembered as the dominant force of the FBI. But he really got his start in 1919. He was 24 when he got a job at the Justice Department and was handed the position of ...