John Edgar Hoover net worth is
$250,000

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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI. He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting Presidents. However, according to biographer Kenneth Ackerman, the notion that Hoover’s secret files kept presidents from firing him is a myth.According to President Harry S. Truman, Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him". 

Full Name	John Edgar Hoover
Net Worth	$250,000
Date Of Birth	January 1, 1895
Died	1972-05-02
Place Of Birth	Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Height	5' 10" (1.78 m)
Profession	Writer, Actor, Casting Department
Work Position	Persons who have lain in state or honor
Education	George Washington University
Parents	Anna Marie Scheitlin, Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr.
Nicknames	J. Edgar Hoover, Hoover, J. Edgar
Star Sign	Capricorn

#	Quote
1	I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
2	The minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
3	Justice is incidental to law and order.
4	The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
5	[on communism] The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous they cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to the realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

#	Fact
1	Is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011), Pat Hingle in Citizen Cohn (1992), Richard Dysart in Panther (1995), Bob Hoskins in Nixon (1995), Dylan Baker in Selma (2014), Stephen Root in All the Way (2016), Ernest Borgnine in Hoover (2000) and Billy Crudup in Public Enemies (2009).
2	When vacationing, the first thing he did was to see if there was a horse track nearby.
3	His hobby was betting on horse races.
4	The reason why Hoover is known as "J. Edgar" and not "John Edgar" is because there was another John Edgar Hoover living in Washington D.C. who had a bad credit history. In order to avoid confusion and scandal, Hoover started going by his first initial.
5	Is portrayed by Aron Tager in Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999)
6	Awarded an honorary Sc. D by Kalamazoo College in 1937
7	Member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity (Alpha Nu 1914.)
8	Graduated from George Washington University in 1917 with a degree in law.
9	Hoover's birth certificate was not filed until 1938.
10	At his death, then President Richard Nixon had Hoover's office and its contents sealed for several months. Reports are that Nixon's first reaction to being told of Hoover's death was, "Are you sure?"
11	Was the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 19, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972. Kept files on many political leaders and public figures that contained sensitive and potentially damaging information which he used for blackmail purposes. Ironically, there is strong evidence now that organized crime knew, and had evidence to prove, that Hoover was a secretly active homosexual transvestite and threatened him with exposure unless he took the heat off of their organization and onto some other person or organization. It was then that Hoover decided to focus his efforts at destroying the careers of liberal political and public figures such as Charles Chaplin and political reformers and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King. If true, that may explain why Hoover for decades kept denying that there was any form of national organized crime syndicate in America, and he was forced to admit it only because of the testimony of Mafia killer Joe Valachi before Congress in the early 1960s--which Hoover, as it turned out, had unsuccessfully tried to prevent.

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Operation Abolition	1960	Documentary
TV Reader's Digest	1956	TV Series based upon an article by - 1 episode
Walk East on Beacon!	1952	article The Crime of the Century
Queen of the Mob	1940	book "Persons in Hiding"
Parole Fixer	1940	book "Persons in Hiding"
Undercover Doctor	1939	book "Persons In Hiding"
Persons in Hiding	1939	book "Persons in Hiding"

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Next of Kin	1942	Narrator (prologue and epilogue) (US version)

Casting Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
'G' Men	1935	consultant: casting - uncredited

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
The F.B.I.	1970	TV Series appreciation to - 4 episodes
The FBI Story	1959	thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Great Books	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
UFO's Are Real	1979	Documentary	Himself - FBI Director
Dillinger	1973	Himself (post-end credits speech) (voice, uncredited)
This Is Your Life	1960	TV Series	Himself
The FBI Story	1959	Himself (uncredited)
Machine-Gun Kelly	1958	Himself, in photo (uncredited)
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports	1951	TV Series	Himself - Audience Member
A Day with the F.B.I.	1951	Documentary short Himself
Youth in Crisis	1943	Documentary short	Himself
You Can't Get Away with It	1936	Short documentary	Himself - Director of the FBI of the Department of Justice

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