Raleigh DeGeer Amyx

Raleigh DeGeer Amyx
Raleigh DeGeer Amyx in his library, October 2011
Born	1938 (age 78–79) Kansas City, Kansas
Nationality	American
Occupation	Historian, collector
Known for	Collector of historical memorabilia
Website	The Raleigh DeGeer Amyx collection

Raleigh DeGeer Amyx (born 1938) is an American collector of Presidential, Americana, military, sports, NASA, and Olympic artifacts, including gold, silver, and bronze winners medals presented to athletes.

Amyx was born in 1938 in Kansas City, Kansas, and later moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he resided during the World War II years. In 1945, his father, Eugene Raleigh Amyx, accepted a transfer by his employer Johnson & Johnson, to Louisville, Kentucky. There Raleigh was raised until his graduation from Atherton High School.

Amyx served in the U.S. Army and worked at the FBI. At one time he served in the Investigation Division, which included the kidnapping and white slave trade units. He served as a Messenger to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In 1957 Hoover presented an inscribed and signed sepia-toned photo to Amyx. About the same time, Amyx was asked by the Director's Office to take a message to the then Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson, and to then Senator John F. Kennedy. While in the Senate Office with Kennedy, Amyx asked him to inscribe and sign a photograph, to which he obliged.

Later Amyx became an Association Executive, overseeing and co-authoring the Gymnastics Safety Manual. Following a near-fatal illness from throat cancer, Amyx founded American Heritage Manuscripts and Collectibles.

Amyx claims he started collecting at age seven, when he "opened" a museum consisting of some coins, stamps, butterflies and a dead bat. Admission was 2 cents. Amyx's large private collection as an adult is specialized in Presidential, Sports, Military, and NASA collectibles, particularly those owned and used by famous Americans.