J. Edgar Hoover became the first director for the newly formed Bureau of Investigation, what we know today as the FBI, and would remain in that role until his death in 1972. He would grow it into a very well run crime investigation agency. However, it is now known that Mr. Hoover would work above the law in getting things done. For that very reason, term limits have been put in place limiting their tenure to ten years.

This agency would come around at the right time. In the 1930s Read More >>