English: John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C. on January 1, 1895. Upon completing high school, he began working at the Library of Congress and attending night classes at George Washington University Law School. In 1916, he was awarded his LL.B. and the next year his LL.M. He entered the Department of Justice on July 26, 1917. In November 1918, he was named assistant to the attorney general, and the following year, he headed the Department's General Intelligence Division (GID). When the GID was moved in the Bureau of Investigation in 1921, he became assistant director of the BOI. On May 10, 1924, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed the 29-year-old Hoover acting director of the Bureau, and by the end of the year Mr. Hoover was named Director (FBI.gov).