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Currently, Bob Mathias is 93 years, 5 months and 3 days old. Bob Mathias will celebrate 94rd birthday on a Sunday 17th of November 2024. Below we countdown to Bob Mathias upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Bob Mathias |
Occupation | Politician |
Age | 93 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
Born | November 17, 1930 (California) |
Birthday | November 17 |
Town/City | California |
Nationality | California |
Bob Mathias’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.
Bob Mathias was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.
Famous as both an athlete and a politician, Mathias won gold medals in the decathlon events at the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games and went on to serve during the late 1960s and early 1970s as an eighteenth-district California member of the United States House of Representatives.
He won his first Olympic gold when he was only seventeen years old and a recent graduate of California's Tulare Union High School.
An actor as well as a decathlete and congressman, he played a recurring role in the short-lived NBC series The Troubleshooters and also appeared in the film Minotaur: the Wild Beast of Crete.
His two-decade marriage to Melba Mathias ended in divorce in 1976, and he spent the last three decades of his life married to Gwendoyln Alexander. When he died of cancer in his seventies, he was survived by a son named Reiner and daughters named Megan, Alyse, Romel, and Marissa.
Mathias aided the ultimately unsuccessful second presidential campaign of fellow Republican Party politician Gerald Ford.