Joseph Jackson (September 23, 1880 – December 30, 1960) was an American

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...

and Olympic champion. He was born in

St. Louis St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a populatio ...

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. He won three gold medals, all in team events, at the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i ...

in Antwerp.Profile: "Joseph Jackson"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on January 16, 2008)

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External links

Joseph Jackson at FindAGrave
1880 births 1960 deaths American male sport shooters Shooters at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in shooting Olympic medalists in shooting Sportspeople from St. Louis Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-sportshooting-Olympic-medalist-stub