Frank MacKey
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1900 Paris | Team competition |
Frank Joseph MacKey (March 20, 1852 in Gilboa, New York – February 24, 1927) was an American polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Foxhunters Hurlingham polo team which won the gold medal.[1] He also was a businessman, founding HSBC Finance in 1878.[1] In 1927, he committed suicide by shooting himself while suffering from a terminal illness.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Frank MacKey". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
External links
- Frank MacKey at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 13, 2007)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Frank Mackey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
Categories:
- 1852 births
- 1927 suicides
- People from Schoharie County, New York
- American polo players
- Polo players at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic polo players of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Suicides by firearm in Minnesota
- American bankers
- 19th-century American businesspeople
- American Olympic medalist stubs
- American equestrian biography stubs
- Polo stubs