Thomas Jackson Charlton Jr. (born July 12, 1934) is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.
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Full name | Thomas Jackson Charlton Jr. | |||||||||||||
Born | July 12, 1934 (1934-07-12) (age 88) Savannah, Georgia, U.S. | |||||||||||||
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Born in Savannah, Georgia,[1] he won a gold medal in eights with the American team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[2] The eight rowers were Yale undergraduates. Charlton was a member of the Class of 1956. He commissioned through Yale Naval ROTC into the U.S. Marine Corps.
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See also: 1972 New Zealand eight · 1984 Canadian men's eight |
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