Sumner Paine

Sumner Paine (13 May 1868 to 18 April 1904) was an American shooter, born in Boston, the son of the Union Army general Charles Jackson Paine and the brother of the shooter John Paine. He briefly attended Harvard University and then earned a medical degree at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, but never practised and went to work in Paris. At the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens he entered all three pistol events with his brother. The Paine brothers were disqualified from the rapid fire pistol because their firearms were not of the appropriate caliber, but their Colt revolvers gave them the top two places in the 25 metre military pistol, where Sumner finished second behind John, and Sumner then won the 30 metre free pistol after John withdrew. He died of pneumonia in Boston at the age of 35.