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Comparing Dr. Alfred Hoover's Life And Work
Hoover was born in Washington D.C. on January 1, 1895. His parents names were Anna Marie Scheitlin and Dickerson Naylor Hoover Sr. His sister's names were Sadie Marguerite Hoover and Lillian Hoover. He also had a brother named Dickerson Naylor Hoover Jr. He obtained a Bachelors of Law from The George Washington University Law School in 1916. Immediately after getting his LL.M degree, Hoover was hired by the Justice Department to work in the War Emergency Division. He accepted the job on July 27, 1917. The job only paid $990 a year, which is only equivalent to $18,000 in today's money. This job kept him out of the draft. He then became the head of the Divisions Alien Enemy Bureau. His job was to arrest and jail disloyal foreigners without trial.
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