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While Oakland Hells Angels president Sonny Barger was recovering from an operation for throat cancer in the early-mid 1980s, O'Farrell served as acting president of the chapter beginning in 1983. As Oakland is the location of club's unofficial "mother chapter", he was additionally the de facto leader of the Hells Angels internationally.
Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger Jr. (October 8, 1938 – June 29, 2022) was an American outlaw biker who was a founding member of the Oakland, California chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1957. [3]
In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [ 10 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
Sonny Barger, founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, at a book signing in London circa 2002. Andy Drysdale/Shutterstock Sonny Barger, who founded the Oakland ...
The Hells Angels was founded in the 1940s in Fontana, but Barger formed the Oakland chapter in April 1957. He became the club’s national president, its most visible and voluble figure.
Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger and his wife, Sharon, are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco in 1980. Barger, the leather-clad figurehead of the notorious Hells Angels ...
It is believed that George Christie and the current president of the Oakland HA chapter will vie for the top position as national president". [48] In 1998, to celebrate the semicentennial of the founding of the Hells Angels in 1948, Christie hosted the Hells Angels World Run in Ventura, a significant honor within the group. [48]
The founder of the Hells Angels Sonny Barger has died at 83 after a battle with cancer, according to a social media statement and his former attorney.