Jimmy Hoffa full name is James Riddle Hoffa. He took birth on February 14, 1913 in Brazil. He was an American labour chief who succour as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1957 to 1971 and was among one of the most disputed labour controllers of his period.

The boy of an Indiana coal miner who passed away when Hoffa was seven years old. In 1924, Hoffa shifted with his family to Detroit. He ended school at age 14, laboured as a stock boy and storekeeper for many years. In the 1930s, he commenced his union-directing ventures. Originally the business representative for Local 299 in Detroit, by 1940 Hoffa had embellished as chairman of the Central States Drivers Council. By 1942 he became leader of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters. In 1952 he was selected as an international vice president of the Teamsters. Five years later he supersedes Dave Beck as international president.

He was well-known all over the trucking industry as a ruffian and well informed bargained. Hoffa victoriously amalgamated administration and negotiation in the international office of the union. He also performed a key role in the making of the first national freight-hauling contract. His attempts assisted to make the Teamsters the enormous labour union in the United States.

In 1975, on July 30, , he vanished from a restaurant in residential Detroit under conditions that have never been completely adamant. He was told to have had a meeting at the restaurant with Anthony Provenzano, who was a New Jersey Teamsters official, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit gangster; both later contradicts having confronted Hoffa, who was unperceived again. In 1982, he was lawfully proclaimed presumed dead.

On May 1, 1999, James P. Hoffa (Jimmy Hoffa’s boy) was promised in as general president of the Teamsters, after a bitter election campaign concluded in his defeat of Ron Carey, who was coon’s age critic of Jimmy Hoffa.