FBI Director, Government Official. He was better known as A. Bruce Bielaski. He served as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation (or Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation) from April 30, 1912, to February 10, 1919. He was born as Alexander Bruce Bielaski in Montgomery County, Maryland, to the Reverend Alexander Bielaski and his wife Roselle Israel Bielaski on April 2, 1883. He was educated locally and then attended the prestigious George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. where he was a founding father of the Gamma Eta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta. He received his law degree from George Washington University Law School in 1904. Following his education, he joined the United States Department of Justice and worked his way up through the ranks of the Justice Department. He became a Special Examiner in Oklahoma and helped straighten out the court records and aided in the reorganization of Oklahoma's court system when the Oklahoma Territory became a state on November 16, 1907. He then returned to Washington, D.C., and entered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or FBI) and became the assistant to FBI Director Stanley Finch where he was in charge of administrative matters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or FBI). After FBI Director Stanley Finch's term in office expired on April 30, 1912, he was appointed to that position to replace him by then-Attorney General George Woodward Wickersham. During his term in office, he oversaw a steady increase in the resources and responsibilities assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or FBI). After his term in office expired on February 10, 1919, he was succeeded by William Ellam Allen who was named Acting Chief of the Bureau of Investigation that same day. After leaving the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or FBI) he entered into a private law practice. In 1921, while on vacation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, he was kidnapped by Mexican bandits, but spent three days in captivity before saving himself and the ten thousand dollars in cash that had been collected as a ransom to rescue him. The Mexican Government later called him a liar and accused him of planning his own abduction to gain notoriety. This was later determined not to be true after he testified before a judge in court and the case was then closed. He also became involved in local community events and his fraternal organization. He served three terms as International President of the Gamma Eta Chapter of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity from 1919 to 1925. He also served as Chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference (later known as the North American Interfraternity Conference) and was President of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or FBI) from 1939 to 1940. He also worked for a time as a Prohibition Agent operating a decoy speakeasy in New York City which helped break up the William V. Dwyer liquor ring. He lastly served as Assistant General Manager of the National Board of Fire Underwriters from 1943 to 1949, and as President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, an organization that investigated arsons, from 1929 to 1959. He retired from public service in 1959. He passed away following a long illness in Kings Point, New York, on February 19, 1964, at the age of 80, and his funeral was held at the Community Church in Great Neck, New York, and he was buried in Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington, New York. He was married to Amelia Dodson Benson on June 30, 1909, and the couple would have four children together. His wife Amelia survived him and she passed away in Cooperstown, New York, on June 21, 1979, at the age of 96. His grandfather was the Civil War Captain Alexander Bielaski (1811-1861), his uncle was Oscar Bielaski (1847-1911), the first Polish American to play Major League Baseball, and his sister Ruth Bielaski Shipley (1885-1966), was an American government employee who served as the head of the Passport Division of the United States Department of State for 27 years, from 1928 to 1955. His daughter Amelia became a Home Demonstration Agent in Otsego County, New York.