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Eliot Ness, 1936.
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Born:
April 19, 1903, Chicago
Died:
May 7, 1957 (aged 54)
Role In:
Prohibition
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Eliot Ness (born April 19, 1903, Chicago—died May 7, 1957) was an American crime fighter, head of a nine-man team of law officers called the “Untouchables,” who opposed Al Capone’s underworld network in Chicago. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ness was 26 when, in 1929, he was hired as a special agent of the U.S. Department of Justice to head the Prohibition bureau in Chicago, with the express purpose of investigating and harassing Al Capone. Because the men, all in their 20s, whom he hired to help him were extremely dedicated and unbribable, they were nicknamed the Untouchables. ...(100 of 191 words)

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