Frank Fitzsimmons

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Frank Fitzsimmons (August 7, 1907 – May 6, 1981), was President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from Jimmy Hoffa's conditional pardon in 1971 until his own death from cancer in 1981.

Fitzsimmons was vice president of the Teamsters when he was appointed as a caretaker president after Jimmy Hoffa surrendered himself to serve a sentence on a federal conviction. Hoffa was later pardoned by Richard Nixon. As a condition of the pardon, Hoffa was barred from union office for a period of ten years. Fitzsimmons was then elected Teamsters president in 1973.

Fitzsimmons resisted Hoffa's attempts to regain power until Hoffa disappeared in 1975. While Fitzsimmons was suspected in the disappearance, he was never charged.