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J. Edgar Hoover: The First Director Of The Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover, the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was found dead on May 2, 1972. His age before death was 77.

WASHINGTON NEWS BUREAU said FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died at his home during the night do to a massive heart attack.

“He was appointed as the fifth director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.”

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