Editing Helen Gandy (section)

==Early life==
Helen Gandy<ref name=TheoCox>[[Athan G. Theoharis]] and John Stewart Cox. ''The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition''. Philadelphia: [[Temple University]] Press, 1987. {{ISBN|0-87722-532-X}}</ref> was born in Rockville, [[New Jersey]], one of three children (two daughters and a son) born to Franklin Dallas and Annie ([[Married and maiden names|née]] Williams) Gandy. She grew up in New Jersey in [[Fairton, New Jersey|Fairton]] or the [[Port Norris, New Jersey|Port Norris]] section of [[Commercial Township, New Jersey|Commercial Township]]<ref>[[Curt Gentry|Gentry, Curt]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cVzNFWV_rvEC&pg=PA74 ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets''], pp. 73-74. [[W. W. Norton & Company]], 2001. {{ISBN|9780393343502}}. Accessed July 23, 2014. "His choice, who was already working in the department as a file clerk, was a twenty-one-year-old woman from Port Norris, New Jersey. Helen Gandy would remain Hoover's secretary until his death fifty-four years later."</ref> (sources differ) and graduated from [[Bridgeton High School]] in [[Bridgeton, New Jersey|Bridgeton]], New Jersey.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fI9p4Xj-Zh0C&q=%22helen+gandy%22+%%bridgeton+High+school%22 ''Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of Congress, Volume 110, Part 8''], p. 10282. [[United States Government Publishing Office]], 1964. Accessed July 24, 2019. "and it gives me great pleasure to note in passing that when Mr. Hoover was appointed Acting Director by Attorney General Harlan F. Stone on May 10, 1924, under President Calvin Coolidge that his private Secretary then and now is Miss Helen Gandy, a native of Cumberland County, a graduate of Bridgeton High School in my Second District of New Jersey, and the descendant of a fine Old South Jersey family."</ref> In 1918, aged 21, she moved to [[Washington, D.C.]], where she later took classes at [[Strayer Business College]] and [[George Washington University Law School]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Charles |first1=Douglas M. |last2=Stockham |first2=Aaron J. |title=The Federal Bureau of Investigation: History, Powers, and Controversies of the FBI |date=May 18, 2022 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=199}}</ref>