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 ...

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States ... When he was 27, Vovkovinskiy traveled to New York City and was declared America's tallest living person by a Guinness World Records ...

By Victor Mather George Bell, who at 7 feet 8 inches was called the tallest man in the United States, died on March 19 in Durham, N.C. He was 67. His death was announced by the Norfolk Sheriff’s ...

He was 67 years old. Bell was born in 1957 in Portsmouth and was declared the tallest man in America in 2007, but was dethroned by Igor Vovkovinskiy, who edged Bell out by less than half an inch.