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|term_end5=November 6, 1946​

|term_end5=November 6, 1946​

|predecessor5=Robert Ramspeck​

|predecessor5=Robert Ramspeck​

|successor5=Leslie C. "Les" Arends​

|successor5=[[Leslie Arends|Leslie C. "Les" Arends​]]

|office6=[[U.S. Representative]] for Alabama's 8th Congressional District​

|office6=[[U.S. Representative]] for Alabama's 8th Congressional District​

|term_start6=January 3, 1937​

|term_start6=January 3, 1937​

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'''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.  

'''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 sought to curry favor with Sparkman in what turned out to have been be an abbreviated second term as 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 sought to curry favor with Sparkman in what turned out to have been 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 [[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 McCormack (1891–1980) of [[Massachusetts]]. 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.​

Sparkman established his law office in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]] after his graduation from the [[University of Alabama]] School of Law at [[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 McCormack (1891–1980) of [[Massachusetts]]. 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.​

==See also==

==See also==

*[[J. William Fulbright]], liberal segregationist senator from [[Arkansas]]

*[[J. William Fulbright]], liberal segregationist senator from [[Arkansas]]

*[[U.S. "Party-switch" myth]]

*[[U.S. "Party-switch" myth]]

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