Frederick Hird, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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sport shooter
Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1879
Place of Birth: New Diggings, Wisconsin, United States
Date of Death: 27-Sep-1952
Profession: sport shooter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Frederick Hird
- Frederick Sylvester Hird (December 6, 1879 – September 27, 1952) was an American sports shooter who won one gold and two bronze medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. 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 World War I.
- 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.
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