American labour leader · head of Teamsters Union Local 959, Anchorage, Alaska
Jesse L. Carr led Teamsters Union Local 959 in Anchorage. Wikipedia’s account of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline’s construction records Local 959 — more than 23,000 members at its peak — as “by far the most dominant labor force” on the project, notes that Carr once halted all truck traffic in the state for four days of safety meetings, and that the Anchorage Daily News won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on the local’s rise and its influence on state politics. Newsweek profiled him in September 1976 as “The Strongman of Alaska”; the profile opened with this line. We could not establish his birth and death dates from a source we could read, so this page states none.