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Jimmy Hoffa

1913 - 1975

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James Riddle Hoffa (; born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975, declared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 to 1971. He was alleged to have ties to organized crime, and disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. From an early age, Hoffa was a union activist: he became an important regional figure with the IBT by his mid-20s. By 1952, he was the national vice-president of the IBT and between 1957 and 1971, he served as its general president. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jimmy Hoffa is the 88th most popular social activist (up from 93rd in 2019), the 922nd most popular biography from United States (down from 802nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Social Activist.

Jimmy Hoffa was a labor union leader who disappeared in 1975. He was depicted in Martin Scorsese's 2019 film The Irishman, which was adapted from the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 88 out of 840. Before him are Jenny von Westphalen, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Buenaventura Durruti, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Axel Munthe, and Lê Đức Thọ. After him are Alexei Navalny, Widukind, Jane Addams, Beatrice Cenci, An Jung-geun, and Amílcar Cabral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 37. Before him are Carmen Amaya, Albert Ellis, William Tolbert, Wolfgang Paul, Trevor Howard, and Jacobo Árbenz. After him are Frances Farmer, Werner Mölders, Witold Lutosławski, René Clément, Artur Axmann, and Roger Wolcott Sperry. Among people deceased in 1975, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 23. Before him are Arnold J. Toynbee, George Paget Thomson, Saint-John Perse, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, and Paul Keres. After him are Eisaku Satō, Antonín Novotný, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, József Mindszenty, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Dong Biwu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 922 out of 20,380. Before him are Pete Seeger (1919), Edwin S. Porter (1870), George Cukor (1899), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Billie Jean King (1943), and Alan Shepard (1923). After him are William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), George Kennedy (1925), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Lon Chaney Jr. (1906), John Irving (1942), and Josephine Cochrane (1839).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 12. Before him are W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Margaret Sanger (1879), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), and Jody Williams (1950). After him are Jane Addams (1860), Lee Radziwill (1933), John Brown (1800), Betty Ford (1918), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), and William Luther Pierce (1933).

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