John Riley Maxwell (July 16, 1871 – June 3, 1906) was an American

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er who competed in the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...

. In 1904, Maxwell was part of the American team which won the silver medal. He finished 21st in this competition. Maxwell won the inaugural Iowa Amateur in 1900 and the

Trans-Mississippi Amateur The Trans-Mississippi Amateur or Trans-Miss Amateur is an annual amateur golf tournament. It is organized by the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association and was first played in 1901. It is played at a different course each year that are located near or ...

in 1903. Maxwell was inducted into th
Iowa Golf Hall of Fame
in 2011. Maxwell died in

Keokuk, Iowa Keokuk is a city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States, along with Fort Madison. It is Iowa's southernmost city. The population was 9,900 at the time of the 2020 census. The city is named after the Sauk chief Keokuk, who is ...

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* * * American male golfers Amateur golfers Olympic silver medalists for the United States in golf Golfers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Golfers from Iowa 1871 births 1906 deaths {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub