No FBI Director has ever become the US President, nor has any FBI Special Agent become the US President. President Nixon applied to become a Special Agent but was not accepted for this position.
The FBI is headed by a Director who is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
He was appointed as director in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The FBI is part of the Justice Department, so theoretically the line of command is the FBI Director - the Attorney General - then the President
The president does not have direct control over the FBI. The FBI is part of the Department of Justice and operates independently from the executive branch. The president can appoint the FBI director, but the agency is meant to operate free from political influence.
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, has been the Director and head of the FBI since 2001. He is the only Director to date tp be given extensions to his term limit by the President.
Louis Freeh has: Played Himself - Former Director, FBI in "Meet the Press" in 1947. Played Himself - Former FBI Director (segment "My FBI") in "60 Minutes" in 1968. Played himself in "Frontline" in 1983. Played Himself - FBI Director, 1993-2001 in "Frontline" in 1983. Played himself in "The Daily Show" in 1996. Played himself in "Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders" in 2006. Played Himself - Former FBI Director with ties to Saudi Arabia in "September Morn" in 2015.
The president needs the "advice and consent" (confirmation) of the U. S. Senate to appoint the Director of the F.B.I. The confirmation hearings are held by the Committee on the Judiciary.
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the head person in charge of the FBI, and responsible for the day-to-day operations. Robert Swan Mueller III is the sixth and current Director of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI and today the director is Robert S. Mueller, III.
Former FBI assistant director Mark Felt was "Deep Throat" a confidential informant who fed information to Woodward & Bernstein.
j. Edgar Hoover director of the FBI was rumored to be gay, not Herbert hoover, the president who appointed him to that position.
John Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI. He was appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation - the predecessor of the FBI - in 1924. He was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935. He remained as director of the FBI until his death in 1972.