October 17, 1932

Paul Anderson

He was billed as the world’s strongest man and, during the Cold War, a convenient symbol of American power. Paul Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, and overcame Bright’s Disease as a child. A football scholarship got him to Furman University, but he quit and began lifting weights instead. Anderson discovered that he had extraordinary […]

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The Paul Anderson Memorial Park, located in Toccoa, Georgia, is named after Anderson and prominently features a life-sized sculpture of him performing an overhead barbell lift.