J. Edgar Hoover Autograph
160;– May 2, 1972), better known as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the fifth 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 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. More about J. Edgar Hoover
The most expensive item with a signature of J. Edgar Hoover (J EDGAR HOOVER SIGNED LETTER FBI 1939 INTERESTING CONTENT ABOUT MOVIE SCRIPT) was sold on eBay in November 2016 for $875.00 while the cheapest item (CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. RANKIN (d.1960) TYPED SIGNED LETTER TO J. EDGAR HOOVER!) found a new owner for $4.99 in September 2013. The month with the most items sold (26) was November 2011 with an average selling price of $51.00 for an autographed item of J. Edgar Hoover. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2008 with $900.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $12.50 was May 2010. In average, an autographed item from J. Edgar Hoover is worth $45.47.
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Current items with a signature of J. Edgar Hoover
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Traded items with a signature of J. Edgar Hoover
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| Picture | Item Title ▼ | Price | Store |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Autographed LETTER FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover 1971 with Envelope | $16.50 | |
| J. Edgar Hoover - 1945 letter - Original - Signed /blue Ink | $279.95 | |
| J. EDGAR HOOVER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/20/1966 | $540.00 | |
| J. EDGAR HOOVER 1942 SIGNED FBI DIRECTOR LETTER W/ ENVELOPE @ FINGERPRINT CARDS | $139.99 | |
| J. Edgar Hoover Hand Signed Letter JSA Authenticated | $249.00 | |
Latest News about J. Edgar Hoover
In the Loop: There was a time in Washington when anyone could just look up J. Edgar Hoover’s home address (03/13/15): Back in the 60s, you could find the home addresses of most senators and senior administration officials in the congressional directory. 
Dinesh D'Souza: Obama is my J. Edgar Hoover (01/19/15): On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he lashes out at Obama on Twitter.
“There is but one way out for you”: Read the uncensored letter J. Edgar Hoover wrote to MLK (11/12/14): Historian discovers unredacted copy of longtime FBI chief's chilling letter
Today's obits: Robert S. Rea was recognized by J. Edgar Hoover for his FBI work in Syracuse (10/24/14): Rea, 87, lived in Camillus for many years and was a member of St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church.
High-Level NSA Official: the NSA Has Become “J. Edgar Hoover On Super Steroids” (07/09/14): The newly-published revelations from Edward Snowden show that the NSA and FBI spied on an American citizen running for political office : The NSA also surveilled a U.S. citizen while he ran for political office: https://t.co/UzFya8ltmj pic.twitter.com/3jZdsYxQRG The Washington Post’s report last week also shows that the NSA also collected information on President Obama, both as president-elect ...
Older News Stories about J. Edgar Hoover
Dylan Baker Set For J Edgar Hoover Role In MLK Pic ‘Selma’ (06/2014): EXCLUSIVE : Spider-Man 2 and 3 ‘s Dylan Baker has joined the cast of Paramount’s Martin Luther King Jr. pic Selma as one of the civil rights leader’s most vigorous government adversaries. He’ll play FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who under the direction of then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy, carried out extensive investigations of King and his cohorts, including wiretapping and heavy ...
J. Edgar Hoover: The librarian who became America’s ‘most-powerful man’ (05/2014): On May 2, 1972, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover died of heart disease at a Washington hospital, ending his 48-year total control over the federal agency he managed and created. Hoover, a power unto himself, actually started his professional career as a librarian and used those skills to shape the FBI.
Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets (01/2014): One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans. The case was unsolved, until now.
Secrets — a cautionary tale about J. Edgar Hoover (08/2013): By Jim Nowlan "There's something addictive about a secret," declared J. Edgar Hoover, the founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who died in 1972. And so it is with the National Security Agency (NSA), which is now apparently storing just about every digital impulse that we Americans emit. read more
Sen. Carl Levin imagines NSA phone-tracking in hands of J. Edgar Hoover (07/2013): Sen. Carl Levin (D) of Michigan says the phone-monitoring technology used by the US National Security Agency to battle terrorism has “a greater potential to invade our privacy” than what was possible in the past.
Video: All That Mattered: J. Edgar Hoover rises to power (05/2013): On this day, 89 years ago, J. Edgar Hoover was named director of what would later become known as the FBI. Charlie Rose reports.