Helen Wilburforce Gandy was the American longtime secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, who called her "indispensable". Serving in that role for 54 years she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the operations of the Bureau. Following Hoover's death in 1972, she spent weeks destroying his "Personal File," thought to contain the most incriminating material Hoover used to manipulate or blackmail the most powerful figures in Washington.
Helen Gandy in her office in the Justice Department in the 1940s, by Theodor Horydczak
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I, in 1961. Gandy worked for him from 1918 to his death in 1972.
Commercial Township, New Jersey
Commercial Township is a township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Vineland-Bridgeton metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,669, a decrease of 509 (−9.8%) from the 2010 census count of 5,178, which in turn reflected a decline of 81 (−1.5%) from the 5,259 counted in the 2000 census.
Caesar Hoskins Log Cabin
Bivalve Oyster Packing and Docks, south of Port Norris, are on the National Register of Historic Places
County Route 553 in Commercial Township
