title: Clyde Tolson
text: Clyde Anderson Tolson (May 22, 1900 – April 14, 1975) was the second-ranking official of the FBI from 1930 until 1972. He is best known as the protégé and long time top deputy of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He was Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for one day in May 1972.
  
  Other websites
  Associate Director Tolson's personnel records and copies of memoranda at FBI's FOIA Website
   
   
  
  1900 births
  1975 deaths
  Deaths from renal failure
  Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Politicians from Missouri