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Directors, Then and Now
 

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LOUIS PATRICK GRAY, III

Acting Director
May 3, 1972 - April 27, 1973

Louis Patrick Gray III was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 18, 1916. He attended schools in St. Louis and Houston, Texas. After attending Rice University for a period, Mr. Gray enrolled at the United States Naval Academy and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1940. The Navy commissioned Mr. Gray as a line officer and he served throughout World War II and the Korean War.

In 1949, between his two tours of duty, Mr. Gray received a J.D. degree from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to practice before the Washington D.C. Bar in 1949; later he was admitted to practice law by the Connecticut State Bar, the United States Military Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States Supreme Court. After retiring from the Navy in 1960 with the rank of Captain, Mr. Gray served as Military Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1961, he entered private practice.

In the late 1960s, Mr. Gray returned to the federal government and worked in the Nixon administration in several different positions. In 1970, President Nixon appointed Mr. Gray as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the Department of Justice. In 1972, Mr. Gray was appointed Deputy Attorney General but before he could be confirmed by the full Senate, his nomination was withdrawn. Instead, President Nixon designated him as Acting Director of the FBI. Gray served in this position for less than a year.

Robert S. Mueller, III
2001- Present

Thomas J. Pickard
2001 (Acting)
Louis Freeh
1993-2001
Floyd I. Clarke
1993 (Acting)
William S. Sessions
1987-1993
John Otto
1987 (Acting)
William H. Webster
1978-1987
Clarence M. Kelley
1973-1978
William D. Ruckelshaus
1973 (Acting)
L. Patrick Gray
1972-1973 (Acting)
J. Edgar Hoover
1924-1972
William J. Burns
1921-1924
William J. Flynn
1919-1921
William E. Allen
1919 (Acting)
Alexander B. Bielaski
1912-1919
Stanley Finch
1908-1912