John J. Sparkman
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United States Senator from Alabama |
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In office November 6, 1946 – January 3, 1979 |
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| Preceded by | George R. Swift |
| Succeeded by | Howell Heflin |
| Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations | |
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In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1979 |
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| Preceded by | J. William Fulbright |
| Succeeded by | Frank Church |
| Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs | |
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In office January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975 |
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| Preceded by | A. Willis Robertson |
| Succeeded by | William Proxmire |
| Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business | |
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In office January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1967 |
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| Preceded by | Edward John Thye |
| Succeeded by | George Smathers |
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In office February 20, 1950 – January 3, 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Edward John Thye |
| Succeeded by | George Smathers |
| 11th Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives | |
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In office January 1, 1946 – November 6, 1946 |
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| Leader | John W. McCormack |
| Preceded by | Robert Ramspeck |
| Succeeded by | Leslie C. Arends |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 8th district | |
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In office January 3, 1937 – November 6, 1946 |
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| Preceded by | Archibald Hill Carmichael |
| Succeeded by | Robert E. Jones, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
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John Jackson Sparkman December 20, 1899 Hartselle, Alabama, USA |
| Died | November 16, 1985 (aged 85) Huntsville, Alabama |
| Resting place | Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Ivo Sparkman |
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University of Alabama University of Alabama School of Law |
| Religion | Methodist |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Unit | Student Army Training Corps, World War I |
John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President as Adlai Stevenson's running mate in the 1952 U.S. presidential election.
Sparkman, a son of Whitten Joseph and Julia Mitchell (Kent) Sparkman, was born on a farm near Hartselle, in Morgan County, Alabama. He grew up in a four-room cabin with his eleven brothers and sisters. His father was a tenant farmer and doubled as the county's deputy sheriff. As a child, John Sparkman worked on his father's farm picking cotton.
He attended a one-room elementary school in rural Morgan County, then walked four miles every day to his high school. Sparkman graduated from Morgan County High School in 1917 and enrolled in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. During World War I, he was a member of the Students Army Training Corps . Sparkman worked shoveling coal in the university's boiler room to help pay for his education. He worked on the The Crimson White (the university's newspaper), becoming the paper's editor-in-chief, and served as his class's student-body president. Sparkman was awarded a teaching fellowship in history and political science, he became a founding member of the Gamma Alpha Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha in 1921, and was chosen as the university's "most outstanding senior" the same year. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1921, and his bachelor of laws from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1923. In 1924, Sparkman earned his master's degree in history, writing his master thesis titled "The Kolb-Oates Campaign of 1894," on former Confederate colonel William C. Oates's 1894 campaign for Governor of Alabama.
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