Director Years
Stanley Finch 1908–1912
Alexander B. Bielaski 1912–1919
William E. Allen 1919 (Acting)
William J. Flynn 1919–1921
William J. Burns 1921–1924
J. Edgar Hoover 1924–1972
L. Patrick Gray 1972–1973 (Acting)
William D. Ruckelshaus 1973 (Acting)
Clarence M. Kelley 1973–1978
James B. Adams 1978 (Acting)
William H. Webster 1979–1987
John Otto 1987 (Acting)
William S. Sessions 1987–1993
Floyd I. Clarke 1993 (Acting)
Louis Freeh 1993–2001
Thomas J. Pickard 2001 (Acting)
Robert S. Mueller 2001–2013
James Comey 2013–2017
Andrew G. McCabe 2017- (Acting)
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Including Christopher Wray and “acting” directors, there have been 20 FBI Directors in the FBI’s 114 year history.
I can’t honestly state affirmatively they were all dishonest but I would bet a hundred bucks they were. Wray sure is.
It’s way past time to commit the name “FBI” to the septic tank of history. In the old days, we needed an FBI with few roads, no commercial airplane service, no email, no fedex, lots of mob activity and so on.
We should dissolve the FBI into NIS (National Investigative Service), disarm the agents, no badge needed, call real cops when they need help and limit lawyers in the service to 5 plus staff assistants.
Limit investigations to mob/drug cartel activity, corrupt federal legislators, federal agency employees and foreign agents (i.e. spies).
Hoover was there 48 years.