◆ SpookStack

= . rd * = a . _ é 7 ) May-26, 1936. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT GF JUSTHGE. John Edgar Hoover was born January 1, 1895, in the District of 3 Columbia, and was educated in the Public Schoois of the District of 2 Columbia, graduating from Central High School in 1915. During the same year, 1913, Mr. Hoover entered the Library of Congress ae a Clerk, and ' enrolled in George Washington Law School as an evening student. He holds ' the Degrees of LL. B., and LL. M., and also the honorary degree of Doctor © of Laws from the George Washington University,A He has been admitted to practice law before the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Claims, and the United Statee Supreme Court. He ig a trustee of the George Washington University. Mr. Hoover entered the Department of Justice in 1917 as a Clerk aod in 1915 was appointed Special Assistant to the Attorney General. Fron 4921 until 1924, he served as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investiga- tion, and in May, 1924, he was named Director. Wr. Hoover holds the commigsion of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Military Intelligence Division of the Officers Reserve Corps, United States Army. He is a wember of the Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Waryland; the Metropolitan and University Clube, Washington, BD. C.: the Masonic Fraternity; the Kappa Alpha Fraternity; an honorary member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Fraternity; a life member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police; a life member of the International Association for Identification; an honorary member of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police; an honorary life member of the Bheriffs' Asaociation of Texas; Vice-Chairman of the Advieory Board of the International World Folice Association: an honorary member of the Judges and Police Executives Confer~ -—_—~-ence of Erie County ,—New York; -an-honorary member_of the New Mexico Sheriffs! . _.- and Police Association: an honorary member of the Iowa Asecciation of Chiefs of Police; an Honorary member of the Michigan Identification Aesociation; an honorary member of the Florida Peace Officers Association; an honorary member of the Sheriffe' and Peace Officers Asgociation of Oklahoma, an honor- ary member of the Ohio Btate Police Chiefs Association; an honorary member of the Maryland Police Association’ emd an honorary life member of the Tennessee-Mississippi Sheriffe' and Feace Officers’ Association,;, In Novem-