Frank Fitzsimmons
Teamsters president after James R. Hoffa. The President's Commission on Organized Crime states that he was not indicted during his tenure and died in office in 1981.
- Aliases
- Frank E. Fitzsimmons
- Role
- President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who died in office in 1981 (President's Commission statement, 1986)
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state. Each event names its record and the kind of statement it is. The alias is the form printed in a newspaper clipping filed in Part 02 of the FBI's Hoffa file.
On the record
- March 1986 — Commission statement. The Edge names him as Hoffa's successor and states that he "was not indicted during his tenure and died a natural death in office in 1981."
- March 1986 — Commission characterization. The Edge writes that "Fitzsimmons established a measure of detente whereby he was allowed to head the union, while organized crime stole the workers' benefit funds." This is the Commission's statement, not a court's.
This is a thin record. The only federal source filed here that describes him is the Commission’s 1986 report. No record read states the year he took office.
Records
itemPresident's Commission on Organized Crime, The Edge (1986): the Teamsters and longshoremen sectionsThe Commission's 1986 report on organized crime, business and labor unions. Its Teamsters section, "The Most Controlled Union," reviews five IBT presidents from 1952 to 1985 and quotes Roy L. Williams: "Every big [Teamster] local union ... had some connection with organized crime."itemFBI Vault: Jimmy Hoffa, Part 02The second Vault part on the Hoffa disappearance, 183 pages: Detroit agents' transcriptions of broadcast interviews about the case from November 1976, then teletypes and press clippings on the investigation into the 1980s.