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Events on Saturday 10 May 1924 1
1924J. Edgar Hoover named head of the Bureau of InvestigationAppointment begins a tenure that would last 48 yearsAttorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed J. Edgar Hoover acting director of the Bureau of Investigation on 10 May 1924. Hoover reshaped the agency, later renamed the FBI, and led it until his death in 1972.