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Me October 25, 1939 BIOGRAPHICAL BKETCH OF JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. John Edgar Hoover was born January 1, 1895, in the District of Columbia, and was educated in the Public Bchools of the District of Columbia, graduating from Central High School in 1913. He holds the Degrees of LL. B., and LL. M., from George Washington University and also the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the George Washington University, Pennsylvania Military College, New York University, Westminster College, Oklahoma Baptist University, and Georgetown University. He holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Kalamazoo College. He has been admitted to practice law before the bar of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Claims, ani the United States Gopreme Court. He is a trustee of the George Washington University and a member of the Board of Directore of . Seergency Hospital, Washingion, dD. £. Wr. Hoover entered the Department of Justice in 1917 and in 1919 was appointed Special Assistant to the Attorney General. From 1921 until ct ORE he served ag sesistant Director of the Bureat of tInvrestigeticn, 220 in Mey, 1824, he was nemed Director. ~ Yr: Hoover holte the Commission ef Lieutenant-Colonel in the Military Intelligence Division of the Officers Reserve Corps, United Statec Army. He ig a member of the Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland; the Metropolitan and University Clubs, Washington, D. C.; the Masonic ~-¥Fraternity; the Kappa Alpha Fraternity; an honorary member of the Omicron —Belta Kappe Fraternity and of the Zeta Sigma Pi National Honorary Social Science Fraternity; @ life member of the International Association of Cniefae of Police and is an honorary member of many state-wide police, __...____@heriffs, and other law snforcamant sasaociations, In November, 1935, Wr. Hoover was named a member of the Royal Order of the Crown of Reumania, With the rank of Commander, and in July of 1938 he was awarded the Commandery Gross of the Order of The Star of Roumania, as a result of his activities in promoting closer international police collaboration. Wr. Hoover was the recipient on Rovember 9, 1936, of the Distinguished Service medal from the Boys' Clube of America “in recognition of his services on behalf of the boyhood of America and in crime prevention work.” The only other similar medal ever awarded hy the Soys' Clubs of America was presented to the late John Hays Hammond.