John's obituary appeared in the May 3, 1954 Washington Star newspaper: 'John E. Hoover, 76, Dies; a Washington lawyer who had been law clerk to five Supreme Court Justices, died unexpectedly at his home, 2230 California street N.W. after a heart attack. Mr. Hoover, a cousin of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was a sixth-generation Washingtonian. He was the son of John Edward Smith and Louise Gautier Hoover and attended Georgetown University. For 15 years he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justices Peckham, Harlan, Hughes, Joseph Rucker Lamar and Pitney. During that time he prepared memorandums on motions for rehearings, took down opinions stenographically, transcribed them and reviewed them for errors before they were circulated among the justices for comment and approval. On two occasions Mr. Hoover was an aspirant for appointment to the office of United States attorney for the District and for a judgeship on the United States Court of Claims bench. He had tried cases before the Court of Claims for a period of 20 years. For many years he was a special assistant in the Justice Department. Mr. Hoover wrote opinions in the office of the general counsel of the General Accounting Office for two years. He served in a like capacity with the Farm Credit Administration for nine years, retiring in 1942. Since then he had been in the private practice of law at his home. Mr. Hoover had been a familiar figure on Connecticut avenue, where he took five and 10-mile walks every day and night for 40 years. During World War I he was a draft board member. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Laura Warren Hoover; a son, Army Col. Warren H. Hoover, Fort Sill, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Lora De Costa, 2745 Twenty-ninth Street, N.W.; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Egan, 1914 Thirty-seventh Street N.W.; Miss Alice M. Hoover, East Rockaway, N.Y,; a brother, Frank P.Hoover, 1611 Thirty-first Street N.W., and two granddaughters. Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Matthew's Cathedral, 1725 Rhode Island avenue N.W. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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John's obituary appeared in the May 3, 1954 Washington Star newspaper: 'John E. Hoover, 76, Dies; a Washington lawyer who had been law clerk to five Supreme Court Justices, died unexpectedly at his home, 2230 California street N.W. after a heart attack. Mr. Hoover, a cousin of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was a sixth-generation Washingtonian. He was the son of John Edward Smith and Louise Gautier Hoover and attended Georgetown University. For 15 years he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justices Peckham, Harlan, Hughes, Joseph Rucker Lamar and Pitney. During that time he prepared memorandums on motions for rehearings, took down opinions stenographically, transcribed them and reviewed them for errors before they were circulated among the justices for comment and approval. On two occasions Mr. Hoover was an aspirant for appointment to the office of United States attorney for the District and for a judgeship on the United States Court of Claims bench. He had tried cases before the Court of Claims for a period of 20 years. For many years he was a special assistant in the Justice Department. Mr. Hoover wrote opinions in the office of the general counsel of the General Accounting Office for two years. He served in a like capacity with the Farm Credit Administration for nine years, retiring in 1942. Since then he had been in the private practice of law at his home. Mr. Hoover had been a familiar figure on Connecticut avenue, where he took five and 10-mile walks every day and night for 40 years. During World War I he was a draft board member. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Laura Warren Hoover; a son, Army Col. Warren H. Hoover, Fort Sill, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Lora De Costa, 2745 Twenty-ninth Street, N.W.; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Egan, 1914 Thirty-seventh Street N.W.; Miss Alice M. Hoover, East Rockaway, N.Y,; a brother, Frank P.Hoover, 1611 Thirty-first Street N.W., and two granddaughters. Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Matthew's Cathedral, 1725 Rhode Island avenue N.W. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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