Joe Proctor

Name: Joe Proctor
Birth Name: Joseph Lee Proctor
Hometown: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Birthplace: Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
Died: 1999-10-25 (Age:94)
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

He had his own brush with the law when as a young, accomplished local boxer he was arrested after putting on a boxing exhibition in Maryland, where boxing was illegal at the time.

He got into boxing after graduating from Central High School and serving a year in the Merchant Marine. Under the tutelage of legendary Washington boxing coach Goldie Ahearn, Proctor won the Mid-Atlantic amateur heavyweight championship in 1927 and 1928. A solid figure at 6 feet and 185 pounds, he showed promise as a professional prizefighter.

At the request of his wife, Peggy, who was worried about his health, he hung up his gloves to pursue less hazardous careers, first as a bank bookkeeper and then as a policeman on the Washington, DC force.

Died of congestive heart failure.