Eddie Eagan

Eddie Eagan was born on April 26, 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA as Edward Patrick Francis Eagan.

In 1914 he won the Western amateur boxing welterweight championship. In 1918 he won both the Western amateur boxing middleweight and heavy weight championships. 1919 he won the the Allied Forces boxing championship at the Inter-Allied games in Paris and the United States amateur boxing heavyweight championship in Boston. Later, while studying at Oxford, he became the first American to win the British amateur heavy weight championship.

Joined the U.S. Army in 1918 during World War I and served as a lieutenant in the Artillery Corps. He rejoined the Army in 1941 during World War II and served in the Army Air Corps reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel and holding the position of chief of special services in the air transport command.

Won a gold medal in Boxing (light-heavyweight) at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and a gold medal in the Four-Man Bobsled at the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. He is the only person to win a gold medal in different sports in both the Summer and Winter Games.

Studied at the University of Denver in before leaving to join the army. He graduated from Yale University in New Haven Connecticut in 1921. He studied law at Harvard University from 1921 to 1922. In 1922 he became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, in England, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree Jurisprudence in 1924 and a Masters of Arts degree in 1928.

Competed in Boxing (heavyweight) at the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics where he lost in a grueling first round match to Briton Arthur Clifton on points.

Was admitted to the U.S. Bar Association in 1932 and served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern New York district.

Chairman of the New York Athletic Commission from 1945 to 1951.