Frank Fitzsimmons - Wikipedia
Frank Edward Fitzsimmons (April 7, 1908 – May 6, 1981) was an American labor leader. He was acting president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1967 to 1971, and president from 1971 to 1981.
FRANK FITZSIMMONS OF TEAMSTERS DIES - The New York Times
May 7, 1981 · Frank E. Fitzsimmons, a trusted deputy who became president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters when James R. Hoffa went to prison, died of cancer today in a San Diego hospital.
Statement on the Death of Frank Fitzsimmons, President of the ...
Frank Fitzsimmons was an important and powerful voice in the American labor movement. His death is a sad moment not only for the millions of Teamster union members he so diligently represented but for our nation as well.
Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, who lost a long battle... - UPI
May 7, 1981 · Fitzsimmons took charge of the union in March 1967 after Hoffa's imprisonment on jury tampering charges. He was formally elected president four years later when...
Frank Fitzsimmons - Historica Wiki
Frank Edward Fitzsimmons (7 August 1908 – 6 May 1981) was President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1971 (acting from 1967) to 1981, succeeding Jimmy Hoffa and preceding George Mock.
Frank Fitzsimmons (1908-1981) - Find a Grave Memorial
Frank Fitzsimmons,an American labor leader. He was acting president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1967 to 1971,when Jimmy Hoffa had been sent to prison and then president from 1971 to 1981. He passed away from lung cancer at La Jolla's Scripps Clinic.
Frank Fitzsimmons, who headed the powerful Teamsters union for... - UPI
May 7, 1981 · PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Frank Fitzsimmons, who headed the powerful Teamsters union for 14 years before dying of lung cancer, was buried Thursday following a 'strictly private' funeral mass ...
Teamsters President Dies - UPI Archives
May 6, 1981 · Teamsters union President Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who rose from a trucking dock worker in Detroit to lead the nation's largest labor union, died Wednesday...
The Teamsters’ ‘Good Old Days’ Were Anything But
Jul 17, 2024 · Four of the last five presidents of the Teamsters have been indicted, three of them convicted. The two who weren’t convicted, Frank Fitzsimmons and Jackie Presser, both died in office.
Frank Fitzsimmons - Jimmy Hoffa - Historydraft
Fitzsimmons was a Hoffa loyalist, fellow Detroit resident, and a longtime member of Teamsters Local 299, who owed his own high position in large part to Hoffa's influence. Just before he entered prison, Hoffa appointed Frank Fitzsimmons as acting Teamsters president.