Palmer raids
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The Palmer raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arres
A. Mitchell Palmer
Men arrested in raids awaiting deportation hearings on Ellis Island, January 13, 1920
Cartoon by Archibald B. Chapin on the South Bend News-Times – November 8, 1919
J. Edgar Hoover
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John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Palmer raids
…Immigration Acts, and only he could sign deportation orders following a hearing by an immigration inspector. On August 1, 1919, Palmer named 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover to head a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division (GID), with responsibility for investigating…
Hoover in 1961
Dickerson Naylor Hoover
Hoover in the George Washington University yearbook, 1916
Hoover in 1932