VINTAGE! "FBI Director" J. Edgar Hoover Cut Signature From 1924 Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction an early "FBI Director" J. Edgar Hoover Cut Signature from 1924.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
ES-275A
John Edgar Hoover
(January 1, 1895 – May 2, 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. Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive
abuses of power
began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI, and to have 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 others, even sitting
presidents of the United States
.