Alfred John Lill Jr.
{{Short description|President of the Amateur Athletic Union (1880–1956)}}
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Somerville, New Jersey, U.S.| death_cause = | resting_place = | image =File:Alfred John Lill circa 1913.jpg | alt = | caption =Lill, {{Circa|1913}} | order = | office =President of the Amateur Athletic Union | term_start =1913 | term_end =1914 | predecessor =Gustavus Town Kirby | successor =George J. Turner }}
Alfred John Lill Jr. (January 1, 1880 - March 18, 1956) was the president of the Amateur Athletic Union and a member of the United States Olympic Committee for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
Biography
He was born on January 1, 1880, to Alfred John Lill Sr. in Boston, Massachusetts. He married Mary V. Gleason.
In 1913 he was elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union running against George Franklin Pawling. He replaced Gustavus Town Kirby.{{cite news |title=Lill New President Of Athletic Union. Boston Man Elected as Head of Amateur Body to Succeed Kirby. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/11/18/100288129.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 18, 1913 |access-date=2013-12-24 }}{{cite news |title=Amateur Athletic Union |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZgcAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Alfred+J.+Lill%22+amateur&pg=RA1-PA375 |newspaper=Mind and Body |date=1914 |access-date=2013-12-24 }}{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Alfred J. Lill, Jr., President Of A. A. U |url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19131118.2.26 |newspaper=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=November 18, 1913 |access-date=2015-01-02 }}
He was a member of the United States Olympic Committee for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. He and Governor George Howard Earle III of Pennsylvania and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York City proposed an Olympic boycott.{{cite news |title=Gov. Earl Urges U.S. Olympic Ban. He Says Here Nazis Will 'Sell' Their Philosophy to All Who Attend the Games |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/04/archives/gov-earl-urges-us-olympic-ban-he-says-here-nazis-will-sell-their.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 4, 1935 |access-date=2013-12-30 }}
He travelled to New Jersey to visit his daughter. He died on March 19, 1956, at the Somerset Hospital in Somerville, New Jersey.{{cite news |title=Alfred J. Lill |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 19, 1956 }}
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Category:Amateur Athletic Union