Paul Bridgford

Paul Bridgford

Paul Bridgford was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1952. He was the first person in Iowa to win more than one State Wildlife Stamp contest in one year. In 1980, he won both the Iowa Duck Stamp ( Redheads) and Trout Stamp (Brown Trout) competitions. 1981 he won the New Hampshire Pheasant Stamp Contest, and in 1983, he won all three Iowa Stamp Contests ( Duck Stamp, Widgeon)( Trout Stamp, Brown Trout)(Habitat Stamp, Hungarian Partridge), the first and only person ever to do so.