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Farrell Dobbs was born on 25 July, 1907 in Queen City, Missouri, is an American politician. Discover Farrell Dobbs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Politician, trade unionist, historian
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 25 July 1907
Birthday 25 July
Birthplace Queen City, Missouri
Date of death 31 October, 1983
Died Place Pinole, California
Nationality United States

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His wife is Marvel Scholl

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Parents Isaac Turl Dobbs, Ora Lenore Smith
Wife Marvel Scholl
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Children Carol E. DeBerry, Mary Lou Montauk, Sharon Lee Finer

Farrell Dobbs Net Worth

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1848

He had completed two volumes of a planned history of the Marxist movement in the United States at the time of his death, titled: Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years, 1848-1917 and Birth of the Communist Movement, 1918-1922.

1907

Farrell Dobbs (July 25, 1907 – October 31, 1983) was an American Trotskyist, trade unionist, politician, and historian.

Dobbs was born in Queen City, Missouri, where his father was a worker in a coal company garage.

1925

The family moved to Minneapolis, and he graduated from North High School in 1925.

1926

In 1926, he left for North Dakota to find work, but returned the following fall.

1928

At this point, young Farrell Dobbs was a Republican, and supported Herbert Hoover for president in 1928 and 1932.

1930

However, his political viewpoint was changed during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Seeing the plight of workers in that situation (including himself), he became politically radicalized to the left.

1933

In 1933, while working for the Pittsburgh Coal Company in Minneapolis, Dobbs joined the Teamsters.

After getting to know the three Trotskyist Dunne brothers, (Miles, Vincent and Grant) and Swedish socialist Carl Skoglund, he joined the Communist League of America.

Dobbs was one of the initiators of a general strike in Minneapolis, and for a while worked full-time as a union organizer.

He was influential in the Teamsters' shift from emphasis on local delivery work to over-the-road traffic, which keyed their great expansion towards becoming the largest union in the United States.

1939

Dobbs quit in 1939 to work for the new Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

1940

Dobbs met the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky when he visited Mexico shortly before Trotsky's death in 1940.

1944

He served over a year of a 16-month sentence in Federal Correctional Institution, Sandstone, from 1944 to 1945.

After his release, he became the editor of the SWP's newspaper, The Militant.

1948

From 1948 to 1960 he was the SWP's candidate for President of the United States, running in four elections.

1953

He succeeded James P. Cannon as national secretary of the party in 1953, serving until 1972.

1957

Dobbs served as mentor and advisor to a young Jimmy Hoffa, while Hoffa was making his rise within the Teamsters, eventually becoming its president in 1957.

Dobbs primarily inspired Hoffa with his view that the capitalist system was a Darwinian struggle, where power, rather than morality, was the primary factor determining the eventual outcome.

For opposing World War II, he and other leaders of the SWP and the Minneapolis Teamsters were convicted of violating the Smith Act, which made it illegal to "conspire to advocate the violent overthrow of the United States Government".

1960

In 1960, Farrell Dobbs and Joseph Hansen, Trotsky's former secretary in Mexico, went to Cuba to experience the revolutionary movement there.

The two American Trotskyists decided to fully support the Cuban Revolution and the leadership of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

1972

Farrell Dobbs retired in 1972, but remained in the party until his death in 1983.

He devoted the later part of his life to historical documentation of the American leftist movement and the Minnesota Teamsters.

Dobbs was the author of a four-volume history / memoir of the Minneapolis struggles: Teamster Rebellion, Teamster Power, Teamster Politics and Teamster Bureaucracy.