J. Edgar Hoover

PeopleHawk Personality Type:
Main Category:
Big5 Personality Type:
SLOEI
MBTI Personality Type:
ENTJ

John Edgar Hoover (1895 – 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States and an American law enforcement administrator. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI’s predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77.

Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories


PeopleHawk Personality Type: Shaper

Shaper Personality Type
Shapers are energetic, dynamic and driven individuals who are able to motivate and inspire passion in others. Naturally intuitive and considerate, Shapers are the individuals who make sure everyone is heard. They are extroverts who tend to push themselves and others to achieve results.
Main Category: Historical Big5 Personality Type:SLOEI MBTI Personality Type:ENTJ

John Edgar Hoover (1895 – 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States and an American law enforcement administrator. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI’s predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77.

Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories

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