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Born on a farm near Ontario, in Jackson Township, Iowa, Sparks was educated in the rural schools and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.
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He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.
Robert McKee Thomas was a co-inventor of butyl rubber, along with William J. Sparks.
Previous editors have included the patristic scholars J. F. Bethune-Baker, Henry Chadwick, and Maurice Wiles, and the biblical scholars R. H. Lightfoot, Hedley F. D. Sparks, G. B. Caird, Morna Hooker, John Barton, and John Muddiman.
Sparks was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1883).
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He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress).
William J. Sparks (1905-1976), Exxon chemist and president of the American Chemical Society