Description
John Griffith Davies was an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a gold medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. After retiring from swimming, he became a prominent lawyer in California, and after becoming a naturalized American, he was appointed a judge of the United States District Court by Ronald Reagan in 1986, and presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King.
Born
May 17th, 1929 in Willoughby as John Griffith Davies / Died: Mar 24th, 2020 - cancer - aged 90
Last Changes
2020/07/17
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2020/07/17
Address Removed: Available to members only
2020/03/27
The celebrity has been marked as passed away