J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

According to the Washington Post, the FBI " is building a vast repository controlled by people who work in a top-secret vault on the fourth floor of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington.

* FTF Hoover – Cacher who races out once they have received the Georing usually to collect all the FTF's on a full series.

Hoover, a trained engineer, believed strongly in the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them.

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

It was Hoover who called for a specialist to tend to the ailing Chief Executive, and it was also Hoover who contacted the White House to inform them of the President's death.

Smith was a " wet " who called for its repeal, whereas Hoover gave limited support for prohibition, calling it an " experiment noble in purpose ".

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

While a law student, Hoover became interested in the career of Anthony Comstock, the New York City United States Postal Inspector, who waged prolonged campaigns against fraud and vice, and also was against pornography and birth control.

Hoover was noted as sometimes being capricious in his leadership ; he frequently fired FBI agents, singling out those who he thought " looked stupid like truck drivers " or he considered to be " pinheads ".

In 1946, U. S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark authorized Hoover to compile a list of potentially disloyal Americans who might be detained during a wartime national emergency.

COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party, where Hoover went after targets that ranged from suspected everyday spies to larger celebrity figures such as Charlie Chaplin who were seen as spreading Communist Party propaganda, and later organizations such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and others.

" Hoover was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D. C., next to the graves of his parents and a sister who died in infancy.

Hoover hunted down and threatened anyone who made insinuations about his sexuality.

Hoover bequeathed his estate to Tolson, who moved into the house.

Truman Capote, who helped spread salacious rumors about Hoover, once remarked that he was more interested in making Hoover angry than determining whether the rumors were true.

He views Rosenstiel as a liar who was paid for her story, whose " description of Hoover in drag engaging in sex with young blond boys in leather while desecrating the Bible is clearly a homophobic fantasy ”.

He believes only those who have forgotten the virulence of the decades-long campaign against homosexuals in government can believe reports that Hoover appear in compromising situations.

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.

Sent to Montpelier by Secretary Herbert Hoover, Red Cross Aide Reuben Sleight had been killed, and his pilot, Lt. Franklin Wolfe, badly injured.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

It recalled the nickname he had acquired in the Australian outback: " Hail Columbia " Hoover.

Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

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

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, Warren G. Harding, Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding.

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor ; on one occasion he remarked that " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

Hoover mediated between Chile and Peru to solve a conflict on the sovereignty of Arica and Tacna, that in 1883 by the Treaty of Ancón had been awarded to Chile for ten years, to be followed by a plebiscite that had never happened.

Hoover had long been a proponent of the concept that public-private cooperation was the way to achieve high long-term growth.

When Hoover took over the Bureau of Investigation, it had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents.

Hoover said the Bureau had " much more important functions " than arresting bookmakers and gamblers.

In 1956, several years before he targeted King, Hoover had a public showdown with T. R. M.

Hack notes that Hoover was romantically linked to actress Dorothy Lamour in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that after Hoover's death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she had had an affair with Hoover in the years between her two marriages.

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.

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

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 ".

Hoover made changes, such as expanding and combining fingerprint files in the Identification Division to compile the largest collection of fingerprints to date.

Jacqueline Kennedy recalled that Hoover told President John F. Kennedy that King tried to arrange a sex party while in the capital for the March on Washington and told Robert Kennedy that King made derogatory comments during the President's funeral.

Hoover personally made sure that Warner Bros. would portray the FBI more favorably than other crime dramas of the times.

Summers also said that the Mafia had blackmail material on Hoover, which made Hoover reluctant to aggressively pursue organized crime.

Milyo was made a national fellow of the Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank, in 2010.

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.

Hoover made another hovering vacuum-cleaner model called the Celebrity in 1973.

Under the leadership of Herbert Hoover, the government in the 1920s promoted business cooperation, fostered the creation of self-policing trade associations, and made the FTC an ally of " respectable business ".

These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.

As it happened, John Henry Hoover lived a few miles south of what is now Zalma, and it was said that he made excellent corn whiskey.

Justice of the Peace Thomas Eaker made the deed for the Cloningers and Hoover, who immediately deeded the land to W. A.

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.

Lerner was sentenced and transported to Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in San Pedro, California, where Lerner served several months before the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court ordered Lerner released ( despite the claim made by J. Edgar Hoover in a public statement repeated on radio and television that Lerner was " one of the most dangerous criminals in America " though he had never engaged in any act of violence ).

In April 1971 he made a speech on the floor of the House in which he strongly attacked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the whole of the FBI.

He made limited television appearances including a recurring role in Sara ( 1985 ), appeared in Max Headroom ( 1987 ), two separate appearances on Murder, She Wrote ( 1989, 1990 ), a recurring role in Charlie Hoover ( 1991 ) and other productions.

As poor coverage made President Hoover appear detached and out of touch amidst a worsening depression, Richey and Akerson disagreed about the most effective press strategy, with Akerson promoting the idea that Hoover should leverage the increasingly influential platform of radio, and Richey arguing that the radio strategy was not worthy of the Presidency.