Albert Lindbergh had the shortest tenure of any IOC Member. He was co-opted onto the IOC in June 1939 and died in November of that year, serving on the committee for only five months. Although the son of a Swedish master mariner, he was born in Wales, and Lindbergh was actually an IOC Member to South Africa. Lindbergh traveled to South Africa in 1892, but found no work in Cape Town so he settled in Johannesburg, where he quickly became publisher of The Star newspaper. He and a friend, Michael Davis of Leeds, England, starting selling other newspapers as well, and formed the Central News Agency, which prospered and made them wealthy when the company went public.
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