Truman Gibson
Name: Truman Gibson
Hometown: USA
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Died: 2005-12-23 (Age:93)
Promoter: Record
Truman Gibson was a political adviser to U.S. President Harry Truman, lawyer for Joe Louis, and secretary and president of the IBC International Boxing Club. The IBC was dissolved after the Supreme Court ruled in 1959 that it had violated antitrust law. Two years later, Gibson and four co-defendants – Frankie Carbo, once described by the New York district attorney's office as "the underworld czar of boxing", Louis Tom Dragna, Joe Sica, and Frank Palermo – were convicted in federal court of conspiracy and extortion in an effort to siphon off earnings from the welterweight champion Don Jordan. Gibson was sentenced to five years' probation and fined.