Frederick Sylvester Hird (December 6, 1879 – September 27, 1952) was an American

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who won one gold and two bronze medals at the

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. Hird started as a professional boxer and semiprofessional baseball player, but in 1900 decided to pursue a military career and joined the Iowa National Guard. After competing at the 1912 Olympics he fought in the Mexican border campaign of 1914 and in

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. From 1928 to 1936 he served as U.S. Marshall for southern Iowa and then as a special agent for the Iowa attorney general’s office, until retiring in 1943 as a lieutenant colonel.Frederick Hird
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* 1879 births 1952 deaths People from New Diggings, Wisconsin American male sport shooters United States Distinguished Marksman ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in shooting Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in shooting Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 19th-century American people 20th-century American people {{US-sportshooting-Olympic-medalist-stub