# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-edgar-hoover
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:25:57.163Z

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description: "He ran the FBI for 48 years and eight presidents, long enough to build a surveillance machine that let him collect secrets on anyone who mattered — and use them."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  John Edgar Hoover joined the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 under Coolidge, then helped found the FBI in 1935 and stayed until he died in 1972. He modernized American policing: centralized fingerprints, forensic labs, a national index of suspects. He also built something else — a system of illegal wiretaps, break-ins, and dossiers that tracked political dissidents and civil rights leaders as closely as it tracked criminals. The FBI under Hoover violated its own rules and the laws it enforced, and the files he kept gave him leverage over officials at the highest levels. By the time evidence surfaced after his death, the shape of the power he'd held was clear: he'd made himself untouchable by making everyone else afraid.