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The FBI originated from a force of Special Agents created in 1908 by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. When the two first met in 1892, Roosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, boasted of his reforms in federal law enforcement.
He does have the power to order a federal investigation of just about anyone, for just about anything, so there are considerably powers that local police do not have. J.Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, held the post for 48 years, from 1924 to his death in 1972.