Clyde Tolson

Clyde Anderson Tolson (May 22, 1900 – April 14, 1975) was Associate Director of the FBI, primarily responsible for personnel and discipline. He is best known as the protégé of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Tolson was born in Laredo, Missouri, and attended Cedar Rapids Business College, in Iowa, then was a War Department clerk. From 1919 to 1928, he was confidential secretary for the Secretary of War in three administrations, to Newton D. Baker, John W. Weeks, and Dwight F. Davis. Tolson then was completing a B.A. degree at George Washington University in 1925, and a law degree in 1927. After initial rejection by the FBI, he was hired in 1927, seeing the opportunity as a stepping stone to a law practice in Cedar Rapids. After working in...