1840 - 1928
George Wood Wingate American Activist
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1839
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| Birthplace |
New York City
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| Died |
1928
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| Place of Death |
Brooklyn, New York
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Activist
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George Wood Wingate (July 1, 1840 – March 22, 1928) was an American lawyer and organizer of rifle practice. During the Civil War he served in a New York regiment, and later supervised the construction of elevated railways in Brooklyn. In 1867 Wingate drew up rules for systematic rifle practice by Company A, 22d regiment, New York National Guard, of which he was then captain. The publication of these rules (the first of the kind to be formulated in the United States) led to the organization (in 1871) of the National Rifle Association of America, of which he was first secretary and later president from 1886 to 1900. Besides special articles on military subjects he published:
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