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In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Jimmy Hoffa

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Jimmy Hoffa
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: February 14
Died: 1982
Died: July 30
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