and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 as the tallest man in America. He later lost that title to Igor Vovkovinskiy, who was a fraction of an inch taller, and then regained ...

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was also known as the world's tallest man. "The Portsmouth native gained the title in the Guinness World Records back in 2007, although he was surpassed a few years later by Igor Vovkovinskiy ...