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A Short Biography of Jimmy Hoffa

Author Name:

Jimmy Hoffa

Born As:

James Riddle Hoffa

Other Names:

Born:

14 Feb 1913

Died:

30 Jul 1975




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Labor leader                          
                          
Spouse Josephine Poszywak, two children                          
President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from mid 1950’s to mid 1960’s.                          
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The Teamsters union, founded in 1903, had 75,000 members in 1933. As a result of Hoffa's work with other union leaders to consolidate local union trucker groups into regional sections and then into one gigantic national body - work that Hoffa ultimately completed over a period of two decades - membership grew to 170,000 members by 1936. Three years later, there were 420,000; and the number grew during World War II and through the post-war boom to top a million members by 1951.

Disappeared July 30, 1975, aged 62.