# J Edgar Hoover's grave **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 15, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-edgar-hoovers-grave/419311 "2007-09-15T14:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-edgar-hoovers-grave/419311/1 "2007-09-15T14:29:12Z")
According to Cecil’s column [Was J. Edgar Hoover a cross-dresser?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/021206.html), the former FBI director is buried next to his longtime companion Clyde Tolson. [findagrave.com](http://findagrave.com) has a [picture of Hoover’s grave](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=499&PIgrid=499&PIcrid=104430&PIpi=76289&), which appears to depict a family grave with no Tolson buried there. Did Tolson manage to snag the next spot (which seems unlikely since this grave appears to have existed since long before Hoover’s death) in the Congressional Cemetery? Is there another John Edgar Hoover born in 1895 and dead in 1972 with a reason to have the FBI seal on his grave? Was his body moved? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-edgar-hoovers-grave/419311/2 "2007-09-15T15:40:58Z")
The [cemetery website](http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/Education/Tours/NavyYard/NavyTour_8th.html) says Hoover is buried at R20 S117 and Tolson at R20 S156. Exactly how close they are I don’t know. According to that page Tolson is “Said to be buried at this site because it was the closest he could get to Hoover.” ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-edgar-hoovers-grave/419311/3 "2007-09-15T17:59:32Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] The [cemetery website](http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/Education/Tours/NavyYard/NavyTour_8th.html) says Hoover is buried at R20 S117 and Tolson at R20 S156. Exactly how close they are I don’t know. According to that page Tolson is “Said to be buried at this site because it was the closest he could get to Hoover.” [/QUOTE] Not exactly “side by side” as Uncle Cecil stated… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-edgar-hoovers-grave/419311/4 "2007-09-15T22:39:45Z")
Press reports at the time of Tolson’s funeral said “50 feet from Hoover’s grave.”