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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=John Jackson Sparkman
|office=Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
|term_start =January 3, 1975
|term_end=January 3, 1979
|predecessor=[[J. William Fulbright]]
|successor=Frank Church
|office2=Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee
|term_start2=January 3, 1967
|term_end2=January 3, 1975
|predecessor2=A. Willis Robertson
|successor2=[[William Proxmire]]
|office3=Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee
|term_start3=January 3, 1955
|term_end3=January 3, 1967
|predecessor3=Edward Thye
|successor3=George Smathers
|term_start3=February 20, 1950
|term_end3 =January 3, 1953
|predecessor3=Edward Thye
|successor3=George Armistead Smathers
|office4=[[United States Senator]] from [[Alabama]]
|term_start4=November 6, 1946
|term_end4=January 3, 1979
|predecessor4=George R. Swift (interim for John H. Bankhead, II)
|successor4=[[Howell Heflin]]
|office5 =House Majority Whip
|leader5=John William McCormack
|term_start5=January 1, 1946
|term_end5=November 6, 1946
|predecessor5=Robert Ramspeck
|successor5=Leslie C. "Les" Arends
|office6=[[U.S. Representative]] for Alabama's then 8th congressional district
|term_start6=January 3, 1937
|term_end6=November 6, 1946
|predecessor6 =Archibald Hill Carmichael
|successor6=Robert E. Jones, Jr.
|birth_date=December 20, 1899
|birth_place=Hartselle, Morgan County, Alabama
|death_date=November 16, 1985 (aged 85)
|death_place=[[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], Alabama
|resting_place=Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville
|occupation=[[Attorney]]<br>
[[United States Army]] in [[World War I]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Ivo Hall Sparkman (1899-1999)
|alma_mater=[[University of Alabama]] at [[Tuscaloosa]] (B.A. and LLB)
}}
'''John Jackson Sparkman''' (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] from his native Morgan County, [[Alabama], who served in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1937 to 1946 and then the [[United States Senate]] from 1946 to 1979. He was also the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] in the 1952 national election, paired opposite Senator [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]]. His ticket-mate, [[Adlai Stevenson]], lost the first of two consecutive races for President against [[Dwight Eisenhower]]. Therefore, Nixon, not Sparkman, began in 1953 an eight-year stint as vice president. The paths of Sparkman and Nixon met again when Nixon was elected president in 1968 over [[Hubert Humphrey]] and [[George Wallace]]. In 1972, as Nixon won reelection, he declined to assist Sparkman's unsuccessful [[Republican Party|Republican challenger]], [[Winton Blount]], who had been [[Postmaster General]] in the first Nixon administration. Instead Nixon was seek to curry favor with Sparkman in what turned out to be an abbreviated second term as president.
Sparkman established his law office in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]] after his graduation from the [[University of Alabama]] School of Law at T[[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]]. He won election to the House in 1936 and served during most of 1946 as the House Majority Whip under Majority Leader John William McCormick (1891-1980). He left the House that same year after he won a [[special election]] to succeed Senator John H. Bankhead, II. He is remembered his sponsorship of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and as the chairman of both the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations committees.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sparkman, John}}
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|name=John Jackson Sparkman
|office=Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
|term_start =January 3, 1975
|term_end=January 3, 1979
|predecessor=[[J. William Fulbright]]
|successor=Frank Church
|office2=Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee
|term_start2=January 3, 1967
|term_end2=January 3, 1975
|predecessor2=A. Willis Robertson
|successor2=[[William Proxmire]]
|office3=Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee
|term_start3=January 3, 1955
|term_end3=January 3, 1967
|predecessor3=Edward Thye
|successor3=George Smathers
|term_start3=February 20, 1950
|term_end3 =January 3, 1953
|predecessor3=Edward Thye
|successor3=George Armistead Smathers
|office4=[[United States Senator]] from [[Alabama]]
|term_start4=November 6, 1946
|term_end4=January 3, 1979
|predecessor4=George R. Swift (interim for John H. Bankhead, II)
|successor4=[[Howell Heflin]]
|office5 =House Majority Whip
|leader5=John William McCormack
|term_start5=January 1, 1946
|term_end5=November 6, 1946
|predecessor5=Robert Ramspeck
|successor5=Leslie C. "Les" Arends
|office6=[[U.S. Representative]] for Alabama's then 8th congressional district
|term_start6=January 3, 1937
|term_end6=November 6, 1946
|predecessor6 =Archibald Hill Carmichael
|successor6=Robert E. Jones, Jr.
|birth_date=December 20, 1899
|birth_place=Hartselle, Morgan County, Alabama
|death_date=November 16, 1985 (aged 85)
|death_place=[[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], Alabama
|resting_place=Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville
|occupation=[[Attorney]]<br>
[[United States Army]] in [[World War I]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Ivo Hall Sparkman (1899-1999)
|alma_mater=[[University of Alabama]] at [[Tuscaloosa]] (B.A. and LLB)
}}
'''John Jackson Sparkman''' (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] from his native Morgan County, [[Alabama], who served in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1937 to 1946 and then the [[United States Senate]] from 1946 to 1979. He was also the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nominee for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] in the 1952 national election, paired opposite Senator [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]]. His ticket-mate, [[Adlai Stevenson]], lost the first of two consecutive races for President against [[Dwight Eisenhower]]. Therefore, Nixon, not Sparkman, began in 1953 an eight-year stint as vice president. The paths of Sparkman and Nixon met again when Nixon was elected president in 1968 over [[Hubert Humphrey]] and [[George Wallace]]. In 1972, as Nixon won reelection, he declined to assist Sparkman's unsuccessful [[Republican Party|Republican challenger]], [[Winton Blount]], who had been [[Postmaster General]] in the first Nixon administration. Instead Nixon was seek to curry favor with Sparkman in what turned out to be an abbreviated second term as president.
Sparkman established his law office in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]] after his graduation from the [[University of Alabama]] School of Law at T[[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]]. He won election to the House in 1936 and served during most of 1946 as the House Majority Whip under Majority Leader John William McCormick (1891-1980). He left the House that same year after he won a [[special election]] to succeed Senator John H. Bankhead, II. He is remembered his sponsorship of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and as the chairman of both the Senate Banking and Foreign Relations committees.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sparkman, John}}
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:World War I]]
[[Category:United States Army]]