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{{Infobox person
|name=Edward Grady Partin, Sr.
(Teamsters union business agent<br>Offered immunized testimony that sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison
| birth_date=Februn busiary 27, 1924
| birth_place=Woodville<br>Wilkinson County<br />[[Mississippi]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=March 11, 1990 (aged 66)
| death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_cause=Cardiovascular disease and Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]]
| resting_place=Resthaven Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge
|occupation=[[Teamsters]] business agent
|spouse= (1) Divorced<br>
(2) Frances Kay Anselmo Partin (married 1968, divorced)<br>
'''Children from first marriage''':<br>
Glenda Gail Lang<br>Cynthia P. Mitchen<br>Janice P. Barlow<br>Teresa P. Gaydos<br>Brenda Partin Kyzar<br>Edward G. Partin, Jr.<br>Byron Keith Partin<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Grady Edward Partin<br>
Bessie Partin Foster
|alma_mater=
|religion=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
(1) The long-time [[Teamsters Union]] business agent in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], whoprovided the key testimony that sent [[Jimmy Hoffa]] to prison for [[jury tampering]].<br>
(2) Partin himself was investigated, indicted, convicted, or imprisoned on a multiplicity of charges over many years ranging from [[embezzlement]] to [[extortion]] to [[manslaughter]]. Many of the earlier cases against him were not pursued because of the immunized testimony that he offered against Hoffa.
}}
'''Edward Grady Partin, Sr.''' (February 27, 1924 – March 11, 1990),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> was a business agent of the [[Teamsters Union]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]. His testimony in 1964 helped to convict union president [[Jimmy Hoffa]] of [[jury tampering]].<ref name=partin>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/13/obituaries/edward-partin-66-union-aide-became-anti-hoffa-witness.html|title=Edward Partin, 66; Union Aide Became Anti-Hoffa Witness|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]'|date=March 12, 1990|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref>
==Early years==
Partin was born to Grady Edward Partin (1899–1967) and Bessie M. Partin Foster (1905–2003)<ref name=ssdi/> in Woodville in Wilkinson County, [[Mississippi]], adjacent to the Louisiana border.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/1999/sep/01/obituaries-for-sept-2-1999/|title=Obituaries for Sept. 2, 1990|publisher=''The Natchez (Mississippi) Democrat''|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref> He was a dishonorably discharged [[United States Marine Corps|Marine]]. His first arrest was for burglary of a house. In 1961, members of Local 5 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, with which Partin was affiliated for thirty years, charged him with embezzlement of union funds. The 600-pound safe in which union records were stored was found in the bottom of a river. Two who testified against Partin were beaten, and one later was killed by a truck.<ref name=rdt>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19700304&id=h58tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U6AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5983,2252438|author=Ralph de Toledano|title="The Partin Case: Justice Bound"|date March 4, 1970|publisher=Google.com|accessdate=May 7, 2001}}</ref>
On June 27, 1962, Partin was indicted on twenty-six counts of embezzling union funds and falsifying records, but was released on bond.<ref name=rdt/> On August 14, 1962, Partin was sued for damages for having driven his car off the road and leaving the scene of an accident, having injured two persons and killed a third. He was then indicted for first-degree [[manslaughter]] and leaving the scene of an accident. He was also indicted in another case for aggravated [[kidnapping]]. On October 7, 1962, he posted $60,000 in bail in all three cases, embezzlement, manslaughter, and kidnapping, then met with Hoffa to discuss union matters. Thereafter, he emerged as the surprise star witness against Hoffa, having obtained the information on jury tampering from an unexpected stranger in a bar. The Justice Department granted Partin retroactive immunity from prosecution, but Partin denied that he was paid a fee by the government to testify against Hoffa. However, Partin's former wife, the mother of five of his children, received $300 per month, the amount of her alimony, from the Justice Department.<ref name=rdt/> Wade J. McClanahan (1924-1986), a government witness, said that Partin threatened to have him killed if McClanahan went forward with testimony against the Teamsters business agent.<ref name=rdt/>
==Partin and Hoffa==
Partin claimed that Hoffa, his former associate, offered him $20,000 to fix the jury at Hoffa's trial in 1962 on taking kickbacks from a trucking company. [[United States Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]] led the prosecution of Hoffa, but the 1962 trial ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was, however, imprisoned in 1967 on the jury-tampering conviction. James Neal, a prosecutor in the 1962 trial in [[Chattanooga]], [[Tennessee]], said that when Partin entered the courtroom, Hoffa exclaimed, "My God, it's Partin," hence expressing surprise that Partin would testify against Hoffa."<ref name=partin/>
According to Trutv.com, [[New Orleans]] crime boss Carlos Marcello (1910-1993) in 1960 transferred $500,000 in cash to Hoffa to divert the money to the unsuccessful presidential campaign of the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, [[Richard M. Nixon]], who lost to then [[U.S. Senator]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. Early in 1962, Hoffa had disclosed plans to Partin for the murders of President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/marcello/15.html|title=Thomas J. Jones, "Carlos Marcello: Big Daddy in the Big Easy"|publisher=trutv.com|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
Aubrey W. Young, former aide to [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], arranged a meeting at which Partin was offered first, $25,000 a year for ten years, then $1 million from Marcello to work out a plan to overturn the Hoffa conviction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Aubrey+Young+of+Baton+Rouge&source=bl&ots=M3VV7SdM8x&sig=_6UOXTK72JWaItw3mNAaKnwA0JQ&hl=en&ei=q_PYS5-hA4LK8wThxtiaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBDgK#|author=Sandy Smith|title=The Fix|work=''[[Life Magazine|Life]]'']]|publisher=[[Google Books]]|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfk-online.com/hayride.html|author=Walter Sheridan|title=Louisiana Hayride|publisher=jfk-online.com|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref> Hoffa's allies, among them [[film]] [[actor]] and decorated [[World War II]] veteran Audie Murphy (1925-1971), sought to obtain an [[affidavit]] from Partin recanting the testimony against Hoffa. Such a confession could have reopened the case.<ref>{{cite web|url==https://web.archive.org/web/20081114081609/http://www.audiemurphy.com/newsclip/dmn_01-25-74.pdf|author=Earl Golz|title="Audie Murphy struggled to free Hoffa"|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=January 25, 1974|accessdate=May 7, 2010=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
[[Edwin Edwards]], who was elected governor of Louisiana in 1972 to the first of four nonconsecutive terms, had expressed concern that the controversial Partin might endorse his candidacy, a development that Edwards, then a [[U.S. Representative]] from Louisiana's since disbanded 7th congressional district, feared could hurt the gubernatorial campaign.<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana'' (Lisburn Press, 2009), p. 104.</ref>
==''U.S. v. Partin''==
Thereafter, the post-Robert Kennedy U.S. Justice Department spent eleven years prosecuting Partin on five counts of antitrust and [[extortion]] in connection with labor troubles during the late 1960s in the Baton Rouge area. In March 1979, Partin was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice by hiding witnesses and arranging for [[perjury|perjured]] testimony.<ref name=partin/>
A much earlier Partin trial, which began on June 14, 1971, in Butte, [[Montana]], ended without a verdict. Twenty-four days later, the judge declared a [[mistrial]] as a result of a deadlock among jurors. The case was then reassigned to U.S. District Judge James F. Battin, a Republican former member of the [[United States House of Representatives]], whose court was located in the Billings division. Battin granted a [[change of venue]] to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], for the convenience of both witnesses and counsel. Partin's second trial, with Battin still presiding, hence began in Atlanta on January 31, 1972. Judge Battin dismissed one of the five counts, but Partin was convicted after eighteen days of trial and two other days of deliberations of the remaining four counts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/493/750/4363/|title=U.S. Court of Appeals: Cases and Opinions|publisher=cases.justia.com|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
In June 1980, Partin was finally imprisoned for extortion. While imprisoned in 1984, he pleaded [[nolo contendere]] to charges of conspiracy, [[racketeering]], and the embezzlement of some $450,000 in union funds stemming from a 1973 indictment. Union members once voted to continue paying Partin's salary while he was in prison, but his tenure as the business agent ended in 1981.<ref name=partin/><ref name=egp/>
U.S. District Judge John Parker subsequently reduced Partin's sentence, and he was released to a halfway house in 1986.<ref name=partin/><ref name=egp/>
==Other issues==
Known for his tough negotiation style with business and government, Partin was involved in many labor disputes. He commonly packed courtrooms with Teamsters to demonstrate union solidarity. He was accused, along with Ted Dunham, Jr., of having attempted to monopolize the Baton Rouge concrete industry during a strike against Bulk Transport.<ref name=egp>"Curt Eysink, "Ex-Teamsters chief Partin dies", ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' March 12, 1990, pp. 1, 5A.</ref>
In 1978, Partin organized workers of the Department of Public Works of the Baton Rouge City-Parish government. In 1979, during a teachers' strike in Baton Rouge, he placed non-teaching personnel on picket lines in support of the strike. The teachers, however, asked Partin to remove the pickets, and the strike was soon resolved.<ref name=egp/>
Partin once spent six months in jail for [[contempt of court]] on the order of U.S. District Judge E. Gordon West of Baton Rouge. Partin had disobeyed West's order that the Teamsters stop picketing at Delta Concrete.<ref name=egp/>
==Death==
On November 27, 1968, in Uvalde, [[Texas]], Partin, at forty-four, married the 29-year-old former Frances Kay Anselmo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.org/tx/uvalde/vitals/marriages/1968/uvaldm68.txt|title=Vital Records - Uvalde County, TX - Marriages 1968|publisher=usgwarchives.org|accessdate=March 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728150319/http://files.usgwarchives.org/tx/uvalde/vitals/marriages/1968/uvaldm68.txt|archive-date=July 28, 2011|dead-url=yes}}</ref> This was not a first marriage for Partin. The couple subsequently divorced.
In his later years, Partin resided in McComb, Mississippi. In January 1990, Partin was admitted to a hospital in [[Orlando]], [[Florida]], because of circulatory problems in his legs. After an unsuccessful operation, he spent a week in [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], with a daughter, Janice P. Barlow. He then was admitted to a hospital in Hammond, Louisiana, and finally to the Guest House nursing home on Florida Boulevard in Baton Rouge. There Partin died at the age of sixty-six of complications from cardiovascular disease and [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]].<ref name=egp/>
Survivors included his mother, Bessie Foster, then of Baker in East Baton Rouge Parish; five daughters, Janice Barlow of Tulsa, Glenda Gail Lang of Rialto, [[California]], Cynthia Mitchen of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas, Teresa P. Gaydos of Baton Rouge, and Brenda P. Canton Kyzar of McComb, Mississippi; two sons, Edward Partin, Jr., then of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], and later of Slaughter in East Felician Parish, and Byron Keith Partin of Baker, later of Ethel in East Feliciana Parish; two sisters, Hazel E. Chancellor (born 1926) of Sugar Land, Texas, and Sandra Ann Foster Guy of Baker; two brothers, Donald L. Partin, Sr. (1927–1999),<ref name=ssdi/> and his wife, Vivian Roberts Partin, of Crosby, Mississippi, and Douglas Wesley Partin, Sr. (born 1930) of Baton Rouge and later Crosby, Mississippi; fifteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/Louisiana/laobituaries.html|title=Obituaries: Barlow and Related Families|publisher=''Baton Rouge State Times''|date=March 12, 1990|page=6|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
A Partin nephew, Prentiss Joe Partin (1949-2011), the son of Donald and Vivian Partin and a native of Centreville, Mississippi, was a teacher, coach, principal, and East Baton Rouge Parish school administrator from Zachary, Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=prentiss-joe-partin-coach-partin&pid=149153902|title=Prentiss Joe Partin obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|date=March 9, 2011|accessdate=March 9, 2011}}</ref>
Honorary pallbearers included former Baton Rouge Mayor-President [[Woodrow Wilson Dumas]] and Billy Cannon, a Baton Rouge dentist and a former star [[football]] player at [[Louisiana State University]].<ref name=obit/> Partin is interred at Resthaven Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit/>
Douglas Partin had succeeded his brother as business agent for Teamsters Local 5 in Baton Rouge, a post that Ed Partin had occupied for three decades.<ref name=egp/> Doug Partin said of his brother: "We all know that he made mistakes. We all do. So many people either hated him or loved him. There was no in-between. . . . "<ref name=egp/>
==References==
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{{Infobox person
|name=Edward Grady Partin, Sr.
(Teamsters union business agent<br>Offered immunized testimony that sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison
| birth_date=Februn busiary 27, 1924
| birth_place=Woodville<br>Wilkinson County<br />[[Mississippi]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=March 11, 1990 (aged 66)
| death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_cause=Cardiovascular disease and Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]]
| resting_place=Resthaven Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge
|occupation=[[Teamsters]] business agent
|spouse= (1) Divorced<br>
(2) Frances Kay Anselmo Partin (married 1968, divorced)<br>
'''Children from first marriage''':<br>
Glenda Gail Lang<br>Cynthia P. Mitchen<br>Janice P. Barlow<br>Teresa P. Gaydos<br>Brenda Partin Kyzar<br>Edward G. Partin, Jr.<br>Byron Keith Partin<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Grady Edward Partin<br>
Bessie Partin Foster
|alma_mater=
|religion=
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|footnotes='''Notes''':<br>
(1) The long-time [[Teamsters Union]] business agent in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], whoprovided the key testimony that sent [[Jimmy Hoffa]] to prison for [[jury tampering]].<br>
(2) Partin himself was investigated, indicted, convicted, or imprisoned on a multiplicity of charges over many years ranging from [[embezzlement]] to [[extortion]] to [[manslaughter]]. Many of the earlier cases against him were not pursued because of the immunized testimony that he offered against Hoffa.
}}
'''Edward Grady Partin, Sr.''' (February 27, 1924 – March 11, 1990),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref> was a business agent of the [[Teamsters Union]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]. His testimony in 1964 helped to convict union president [[Jimmy Hoffa]] of [[jury tampering]].<ref name=partin>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/13/obituaries/edward-partin-66-union-aide-became-anti-hoffa-witness.html|title=Edward Partin, 66; Union Aide Became Anti-Hoffa Witness|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]'|date=March 12, 1990|accessdate=May 5, 2010}}</ref>
==Early years==
Partin was born to Grady Edward Partin (1899–1967) and Bessie M. Partin Foster (1905–2003)<ref name=ssdi/> in Woodville in Wilkinson County, [[Mississippi]], adjacent to the Louisiana border.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/1999/sep/01/obituaries-for-sept-2-1999/|title=Obituaries for Sept. 2, 1990|publisher=''The Natchez (Mississippi) Democrat''|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref> He was a dishonorably discharged [[United States Marine Corps|Marine]]. His first arrest was for burglary of a house. In 1961, members of Local 5 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, with which Partin was affiliated for thirty years, charged him with embezzlement of union funds. The 600-pound safe in which union records were stored was found in the bottom of a river. Two who testified against Partin were beaten, and one later was killed by a truck.<ref name=rdt>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19700304&id=h58tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U6AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5983,2252438|author=Ralph de Toledano|title="The Partin Case: Justice Bound"|date March 4, 1970|publisher=Google.com|accessdate=May 7, 2001}}</ref>
On June 27, 1962, Partin was indicted on twenty-six counts of embezzling union funds and falsifying records, but was released on bond.<ref name=rdt/> On August 14, 1962, Partin was sued for damages for having driven his car off the road and leaving the scene of an accident, having injured two persons and killed a third. He was then indicted for first-degree [[manslaughter]] and leaving the scene of an accident. He was also indicted in another case for aggravated [[kidnapping]]. On October 7, 1962, he posted $60,000 in bail in all three cases, embezzlement, manslaughter, and kidnapping, then met with Hoffa to discuss union matters. Thereafter, he emerged as the surprise star witness against Hoffa, having obtained the information on jury tampering from an unexpected stranger in a bar. The Justice Department granted Partin retroactive immunity from prosecution, but Partin denied that he was paid a fee by the government to testify against Hoffa. However, Partin's former wife, the mother of five of his children, received $300 per month, the amount of her alimony, from the Justice Department.<ref name=rdt/> Wade J. McClanahan (1924-1986), a government witness, said that Partin threatened to have him killed if McClanahan went forward with testimony against the Teamsters business agent.<ref name=rdt/>
==Partin and Hoffa==
Partin claimed that Hoffa, his former associate, offered him $20,000 to fix the jury at Hoffa's trial in 1962 on taking kickbacks from a trucking company. [[United States Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]] led the prosecution of Hoffa, but the 1962 trial ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was, however, imprisoned in 1967 on the jury-tampering conviction. James Neal, a prosecutor in the 1962 trial in [[Chattanooga]], [[Tennessee]], said that when Partin entered the courtroom, Hoffa exclaimed, "My God, it's Partin," hence expressing surprise that Partin would testify against Hoffa."<ref name=partin/>
According to Trutv.com, [[New Orleans]] crime boss Carlos Marcello (1910-1993) in 1960 transferred $500,000 in cash to Hoffa to divert the money to the unsuccessful presidential campaign of the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, [[Richard M. Nixon]], who lost to then [[U.S. Senator]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. Early in 1962, Hoffa had disclosed plans to Partin for the murders of President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/marcello/15.html|title=Thomas J. Jones, "Carlos Marcello: Big Daddy in the Big Easy"|publisher=trutv.com|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
Aubrey W. Young, former aide to [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], arranged a meeting at which Partin was offered first, $25,000 a year for ten years, then $1 million from Marcello to work out a plan to overturn the Hoffa conviction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Aubrey+Young+of+Baton+Rouge&source=bl&ots=M3VV7SdM8x&sig=_6UOXTK72JWaItw3mNAaKnwA0JQ&hl=en&ei=q_PYS5-hA4LK8wThxtiaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBDgK#|author=Sandy Smith|title=The Fix|work=''[[Life Magazine|Life]]'']]|publisher=[[Google Books]]|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfk-online.com/hayride.html|author=Walter Sheridan|title=Louisiana Hayride|publisher=jfk-online.com|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref> Hoffa's allies, among them [[film]] [[actor]] and decorated [[World War II]] veteran Audie Murphy (1925-1971), sought to obtain an [[affidavit]] from Partin recanting the testimony against Hoffa. Such a confession could have reopened the case.<ref>{{cite web|url==https://web.archive.org/web/20081114081609/http://www.audiemurphy.com/newsclip/dmn_01-25-74.pdf|author=Earl Golz|title="Audie Murphy struggled to free Hoffa"|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=January 25, 1974|accessdate=May 7, 2010=November 14, 2008}}</ref>
[[Edwin Edwards]], who was elected governor of Louisiana in 1972 to the first of four nonconsecutive terms, had expressed concern that the controversial Partin might endorse his candidacy, a development that Edwards, then a [[U.S. Representative]] from Louisiana's since disbanded 7th congressional district, feared could hurt the gubernatorial campaign.<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana'' (Lisburn Press, 2009), p. 104.</ref>
==''U.S. v. Partin''==
Thereafter, the post-Robert Kennedy U.S. Justice Department spent eleven years prosecuting Partin on five counts of antitrust and [[extortion]] in connection with labor troubles during the late 1960s in the Baton Rouge area. In March 1979, Partin was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice by hiding witnesses and arranging for [[perjury|perjured]] testimony.<ref name=partin/>
A much earlier Partin trial, which began on June 14, 1971, in Butte, [[Montana]], ended without a verdict. Twenty-four days later, the judge declared a [[mistrial]] as a result of a deadlock among jurors. The case was then reassigned to U.S. District Judge James F. Battin, a Republican former member of the [[United States House of Representatives]], whose court was located in the Billings division. Battin granted a [[change of venue]] to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], for the convenience of both witnesses and counsel. Partin's second trial, with Battin still presiding, hence began in Atlanta on January 31, 1972. Judge Battin dismissed one of the five counts, but Partin was convicted after eighteen days of trial and two other days of deliberations of the remaining four counts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/493/750/4363/|title=U.S. Court of Appeals: Cases and Opinions|publisher=cases.justia.com|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
In June 1980, Partin was finally imprisoned for extortion. While imprisoned in 1984, he pleaded [[nolo contendere]] to charges of conspiracy, [[racketeering]], and the embezzlement of some $450,000 in union funds stemming from a 1973 indictment. Union members once voted to continue paying Partin's salary while he was in prison, but his tenure as the business agent ended in 1981.<ref name=partin/><ref name=egp/>
U.S. District Judge John Parker subsequently reduced Partin's sentence, and he was released to a halfway house in 1986.<ref name=partin/><ref name=egp/>
==Other issues==
Known for his tough negotiation style with business and government, Partin was involved in many labor disputes. He commonly packed courtrooms with Teamsters to demonstrate union solidarity. He was accused, along with Ted Dunham, Jr., of having attempted to monopolize the Baton Rouge concrete industry during a strike against Bulk Transport.<ref name=egp>"Curt Eysink, "Ex-Teamsters chief Partin dies", ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' March 12, 1990, pp. 1, 5A.</ref>
In 1978, Partin organized workers of the Department of Public Works of the Baton Rouge City-Parish government. In 1979, during a teachers' strike in Baton Rouge, he placed non-teaching personnel on picket lines in support of the strike. The teachers, however, asked Partin to remove the pickets, and the strike was soon resolved.<ref name=egp/>
Partin once spent six months in jail for [[contempt of court]] on the order of U.S. District Judge E. Gordon West of Baton Rouge. Partin had disobeyed West's order that the Teamsters stop picketing at Delta Concrete.<ref name=egp/>
==Death==
On November 27, 1968, in Uvalde, [[Texas]], Partin, at forty-four, married the 29-year-old former Frances Kay Anselmo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.org/tx/uvalde/vitals/marriages/1968/uvaldm68.txt|title=Vital Records - Uvalde County, TX - Marriages 1968|publisher=usgwarchives.org|accessdate=March 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728150319/http://files.usgwarchives.org/tx/uvalde/vitals/marriages/1968/uvaldm68.txt|archive-date=July 28, 2011|dead-url=yes}}</ref> This was not a first marriage for Partin. The couple subsequently divorced.
In his later years, Partin resided in McComb, Mississippi. In January 1990, Partin was admitted to a hospital in [[Orlando]], [[Florida]], because of circulatory problems in his legs. After an unsuccessful operation, he spent a week in [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]], with a daughter, Janice P. Barlow. He then was admitted to a hospital in Hammond, Louisiana, and finally to the Guest House nursing home on Florida Boulevard in Baton Rouge. There Partin died at the age of sixty-six of complications from cardiovascular disease and [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]].<ref name=egp/>
Survivors included his mother, Bessie Foster, then of Baker in East Baton Rouge Parish; five daughters, Janice Barlow of Tulsa, Glenda Gail Lang of Rialto, [[California]], Cynthia Mitchen of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas, Teresa P. Gaydos of Baton Rouge, and Brenda P. Canton Kyzar of McComb, Mississippi; two sons, Edward Partin, Jr., then of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]], and later of Slaughter in East Felician Parish, and Byron Keith Partin of Baker, later of Ethel in East Feliciana Parish; two sisters, Hazel E. Chancellor (born 1926) of Sugar Land, Texas, and Sandra Ann Foster Guy of Baker; two brothers, Donald L. Partin, Sr. (1927–1999),<ref name=ssdi/> and his wife, Vivian Roberts Partin, of Crosby, Mississippi, and Douglas Wesley Partin, Sr. (born 1930) of Baton Rouge and later Crosby, Mississippi; fifteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/Louisiana/laobituaries.html|title=Obituaries: Barlow and Related Families|publisher=''Baton Rouge State Times''|date=March 12, 1990|page=6|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
A Partin nephew, Prentiss Joe Partin (1949-2011), the son of Donald and Vivian Partin and a native of Centreville, Mississippi, was a teacher, coach, principal, and East Baton Rouge Parish school administrator from Zachary, Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=prentiss-joe-partin-coach-partin&pid=149153902|title=Prentiss Joe Partin obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|date=March 9, 2011|accessdate=March 9, 2011}}</ref>
Honorary pallbearers included former Baton Rouge Mayor-President [[Woodrow Wilson Dumas]] and Billy Cannon, a Baton Rouge dentist and a former star [[football]] player at [[Louisiana State University]].<ref name=obit/> Partin is interred at Resthaven Gardens of Memory in Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit/>
Douglas Partin had succeeded his brother as business agent for Teamsters Local 5 in Baton Rouge, a post that Ed Partin had occupied for three decades.<ref name=egp/> Doug Partin said of his brother: "We all know that he made mistakes. We all do. So many people either hated him or loved him. There was no in-between. . . . "<ref name=egp/>
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