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 ...

In the wake of its success, Hoover sought to double the FBI's budget, but he ran into opposition from a hostile senator and was forced to admit that he'd never made an arrest. The J Edgar Hoover ...