Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
senior United States government position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (known as the Associate Director before) is a senior United States government position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
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Reports to | Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Appointer | Director of the FBI |
Inaugural holder | Clyde Tolson (BOI) |
Formation | 1930 (as Associate Director) |
Deputy | Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Deputy directors
changeNo. | Portrait | Officeholder | Director | President | Term | |
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Start | End | |||||
1 | Clyde Tolson | J. Edgar Hoover | Herbert Hoover | 1930 | May 2, 1972 | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||||||
Harry S. Truman | ||||||
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ||||||
John F. Kennedy | ||||||
Lyndon B. Johnson | ||||||
Richard Nixon | ||||||
2 | Mark Felt | Vacant | Richard Nixon | May 3, 1972 | June 22, 1973 | |
3 | James B. Adams | Clarence M. Kelley | Richard Nixon | June 22, 1973 | February 5, 1978 | |
Gerald Ford | ||||||
Jimmy Carter | ||||||
4 | William H. Webster | April 6, 1978 | May 11, 1979 | |||
5 | Floyd I. Clarke | May 11, 1979 | July 19, 1993 | |||
Ronald Reagan | ||||||
William S. Sessions | George H. W. Bush | |||||
Bill Clinton | ||||||
6 | David G. Binney | Louis Freeh | February 1994 | December 1994 | ||
— | Larry A. Potts | February 1995 | May 2, 1995 | |||
7 | May 2, 1995 | July 14, 1995 | ||||
8 | Weldon L. Kennedy | August 8, 1995 | February 1997 | |||
9 | William J. Esposito | February 28, 1997 | September 30, 1997[1] | |||
10 | Robert M. Bryant[2] | October 1,1997 | October 31, 1999 | |||
11 | Thomas J. Pickard | November 1, 1999 | November 30, 2001[3] | |||
Thomas J. Pickard | Robert Mueller | George W. Bush | ||||
12 | Bruce J. Gebhardt | 2002 | 2004 | |||
13 | John S. Pistole | October 1, 2004 | May 17, 2010 | |||
Barack Obama | ||||||
14 | Timothy P. Murphy | July 8, 2010 | August 31, 2011 | |||
15 | Sean M. Joyce | September 1, 2011 | November 30, 2013 | |||
James Comey | ||||||
16 | Mark F. Giuliano | December 1, 2013 | February 1, 2016 | |||
17 | Andrew McCabe | February 1, 2016[4] | January 29, 2018[5] | |||
Donald Trump | ||||||
Christopher A. Wray | ||||||
18 | David Bowdich | January 30, 2018 | February 1, 2021 | |||
Joe Biden | ||||||
19 | Paul Abbate | February 1, 2021 | Incumbent |
References
change- ↑ Johnston, David (September 11, 1997). "No. 2 Man at F.B.I., Important Manager, Retires This Month". The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ "Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20 - ROBERT M. BRYANT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, FED". www.govinfo.gov. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
- ↑ "FBI Deputy Director Thomas J. Pickard Announces his Retirement" (Press release). FBI. Archived from the original on May 22, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2007.
- ↑ "Andrew G. McCabe Named Deputy Director of the FBI" (Press release). Federal Bureau of Investigation. January 29, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
- ↑ Pramuk, Jacob (January 29, 2018). "FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, frequent target of Trump's ire, steps down: NBC News". CNBC. Retrieved January 29, 2018.