Clarence M. Kelley
Clarence Marion Kelley (born October 24, 1911 in Kansas City , Missouri , † August 5, 1997 ibid) was an American government official and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
biography
Kelley joined the FBI immediately after graduating from college in 1940. In 1961 he left the service after he was appointed police chief in his native Kansas City.
In 1973 he was appointed director of the FBI by US President Richard Nixon to succeed William Ruckelshaus . He took over the management of an authority that was deeply affected by the Watergate affair on the one hand and was in an organizational change after the death of long-time director J. Edgar Hoover a year earlier on the other hand . In 1976 a minor scandal broke out when it became known that he was accepting window curtains and a small office cupboard from FBI holdings for his private home from senior FBI staff. President Gerald Ford declined to dismiss Kelley despite these allegations. However, it can be assumed that these allegations also led to the failed re-election of President Ford. During his tenure as FBI director headed Kelley other hand, a technical modernization to combat crime and issued a study focus of the Authority on White Collar Crime ( Economic Crime ) and the Organized Crime .
In 1978 he was replaced as director of the FBI by William Hedgcock Webster .
literature
- Clarence M. Kelley , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/1978 of April 3, 1978, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Biography on the FBI homepage ( Memento from August 4, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography on rulers.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kelley, Clarence M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kelley, Clarence Marion (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American government official, director of the FBI |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 1997 |
| Place of death | Kansas City , Missouri |