She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.

J. Edgar Hoover, appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1924, was by far the longest-serving FBI Director, serving until his death in 1972.

The translation was made by Herbert Hoover, then an American mining engineer ( better known to history for his later term as a President of the United States ), and his wife Lou Henry Hoover.

Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 ) was the 31st President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author.

America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.

Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).

Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.

His father, Jessie Hoover, was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner who was of German ( Pfautz, Wehmeyer ) and German-Swiss ( Huber, Burkhart ) descent.

Hoover's mother, Hulda Randall ( Minthorn ) Hoover ( 1849 – 84 ), was born in Norwich, Ontario, Canada, of English and Irish descent.

Hoover was made a partner in Bewick, Moreing & Co. on December 18, 1901 and assumed responsibility for various Australian operations and investments.

By now, Hoover was no longer living in Australia, instead he visited the country in 1902, 1903, 1905 and 1907 as an overseas investor.

" Working with his brother, Theodore J. Hoover, Minerals Separation Ltd and his own company, Hoover was supplying the world's industries, such as steel, with zinc and other vital base minerals.

By 1914, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was once quoted as saying " If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much ".

It was determined that Hoover had given extremely detailed maps of the area to Stanford University.

" Hoover liked to say that the difference between dictatorship and democracy was simple: dictators organize from the top down, democracies from the bottom up.

On May 10, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, following President Warren Harding's death and in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, photographed in 1961.

An FBI agent who had gone on fishing trips with Hoover and Tolson said that the director liked to " sunbathe all day in the nude ”.

The novelist William Styron told Summers that he once saw Hoover and Tolson in a California beach house, where the director was painting his friend's toenails.

* In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson bestowed the State Department's Distinguished Service Award on Hoover for his service as director of the FBI.

* May 2 – J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director ( b. 1895 )

** J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director ( d. 1972 )

In 2011, Eastwood directed J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.

'" FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was one of the nation's most fervent anti-communists, and one of the most powerful.

On August 18, 1970, four days after the initial warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made Angela Davis the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI ’ s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.

In 2011, DiCaprio starred in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial first director of the FBI.

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was inaugurated on March 14, 1950, at the direction of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

Upon his return to the United States, Kempner wrote to J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, that Irving expressed many " anti-American and anti-Jewish statements ".

* J. Gander Hooter ( voiced by Danny Mann )-A goose who is the head director of S. H. U. S. H., and whose name is a play on J. Edgar Hoover.

In 1963, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover reportedly told President Lyndon B. Johnson, " I don't have much influence with The Post because I frankly don't read it.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

" J. Edgar Hoover, director of the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, may have found the Lenin connection intriguing ; it was alleged the FBI conducted surveillance at the 1970 demonstrations.

Much of the added time consists of two scenes: one in which Nixon meets with Central Intelligence Agency director Richard Helms ( played by Sam Waterston ) and another on Tricia Nixon's wedding day, where J. Edgar Hoover persuades Nixon to install the taping system in the Oval Office.

When Hoover died on May 2, 1972 in Washington, D. C., Tolson was briefly the acting head of the FBI, but one day later he was replaced by acting director L. Patrick Gray, appointed by President Richard Nixon.

He wrote several times to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, requesting a meeting.

is established with J. Edgar Hoover as its first director.

* 1924-J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation — predecessor to the FBI.

Early in her career, Lamour met J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.