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James Phillip Hoffa (born May 19, 1941), also known as James Hoffa Jr. or Jim Hoffa, is an American labor leader and attorney who was the tenth General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is the son of Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa was first elected in 1998, and re-elected in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 to five-year terms.
Hoffa married Josephine Poszywak, an 18-year-old Detroit laundry worker of Polish heritage, in Bowling Green, Ohio, on September 25, 1937. [5] The couple had met six months earlier during a non-unionized laundry workers' strike action. [6] [7] They had two children: a daughter, Barbara Ann Crancer, and a son, James P. Hoffa. The Hoffas paid ...
Barbara Ann Crancer (née Hoffa; born April 8, 1938) is an American retired lawyer and judge who was a St. Louis County, Missouri Associate Circuit Court Judge. She is the daughter of former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa and Josephine (née Poszywak) Hoffa.
Jimmy Hoffa, the legendary American union organiser, disappeared from a parking lot outside of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Detroit, 48 years ago on Saturday 30 July 1975 ...
A cold-case group believes it has evidence that Jimmy Hoffa's body was moved to Milwaukee County Stadium, the area of what is now Helfaer Field.
Hoffa planned to regain the leadership of the union, but was met with opposition from several members of the Mafia. In 1973 and 1974, Hoffa asked Provenzano for his support to regain his former position, but Provenzano refused and threatened Hoffa by reportedly saying he would pull out his guts and kidnap his grandchildren. [8]
Aug. 8—Brazil native and labor-movement legend Jimmy Hoffa was honored Tuesday when a historical marker was dedicated to his memory in the city where he was born 110 years ago. An estimated 50 ...
Provenzano told investigators that he was playing cards with Stephen Andretta, in Union City, New Jersey, on the day Hoffa disappeared. [3] On December 4, 1975, a federal investigator in Detroit said in court presided by James Paul Churchill that a witness had identified three New Jersey men who had participated "in the abduction and murder of ...