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. July 29, 1955. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. — John Edgar Hoover was born January 1, 1895, in the District of Columbia and was educated in the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, graduating from Central High School in 1913. During the same year, 1915, Mr. Hoover entered the Library of Congress as a Clerk, and enrolled in George Washington Univereity Law School as an evening student. He holds the Degrees of LL. B., LL. M., and LL. D., from The George Washington Univer- sity and 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 States Supreme Court. He is a trustee of The George Washington University. Mr. Hoover entered the Department of Justice in 1917 as a Clerk and in 1919 was appointed Special Assistant to the Attorney General. From “ 1921 until 1924, he served as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investiga- “ tion, and in May, 1924, he was named Director. Mr. Hoover holfs the commission of Lieutenant-Colone) in the a Military intelligence Division of the Officers Heserve Corps, United Siaies it Army. He is a member of the Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland; the Metropolitan and University Clubs, Washington, D. €.; the Masonic Fraternity; the Kappa Alpha Fraternity and is a life member of the inter- -_ national Association of Chiefs of Police: is a life member, International * Association for Identification; an honorary member of the New England Associa- . tion of Chiefs of Police; an honorary life member of the Sheriffs' Association of Texas; Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Board of the International World + Police Association; an honorary member, Judges and Police Executives Conference of Erie County, New York; and an honorary member of the New Wexico Sheriffs' and Police Association. In November, 1955, Mr. Hoover was named a member of the Royal Order of the Crown of Rumania, with the rank of Commander, ae a result of his activities in promoting closer international police collaboration. The Bureau is charged with the duty of investigating violations of the lawe of the United States and collecting evidence in cases in which the United States is or may be a party in interest. The organization has an annual appropriation of five millions of dollars, with a pereonne] of over fifteen hundred employees throughout the United States. Under the direction of the Attorney General, the Director of the Bureau directs the work of the Special Agente who are employed for the purpose of detecting crime and collecting evidence for use in proposed and pending cases for prosecution. Mr. Hoover has under his immediate supervision the Identification Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has on file over 5,000,000 sets of fingerprint records of persons who have been arrested in the United States and “foreign countries, representing the largest and most ; NOT RECORDED _/