1. John Edgar Hoover

2. Contributions to Forensic Science
J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for more than 45 years!
In 1924 Edgar's interest in the science department of criminal affairs led him to have the F.B.I. to use the science in the field.

3. Hoover established the FBI's national fingerprint depository and crime laboratory.
In addition, he made the bureau's new fingerprint collection a national resource.
Edgar focused on fingerprints in the beginning and hired a team later to help agents out in the field for scientific evidence.

4. Edgar focused on fingerprints in the beginning and hired a team later to help agents out in the field for scientific evidence.
Hoover had lectures presented on criminological subjects like handwriting, fingerprints, and ballistics.

5. Hoover eventually established a training program for forensic science based in Chicago to teach agents these criminological subjects.
Hoover pushed for a separate department and even established a state of the art lab in which the teams could assist in crimes through science.

7. Citations
Fox, J. (n.d) The Birth of the FBI’s Technical Laboratory—1924 to fbi.org. Retrieved September 04, 2012, from