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    John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman...
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    Rayburn. Stevenson chose Alabama Senator John Sparkman, a Southern centrist, as his running mate. Sparkman won the vice presidential nomination on the...
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    guitarist John Sparkman in Zion, Illinois in 1990. The members all met in high school in 1987 and founded Local H three years later. After Sparkman's departure...
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    it down to Senators John Sparkman, and A. S. Mike Monroney, President Truman and a small group of political insiders chose Sparkman, a conservative segregationist...
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    Democratic primary tantamount to the election. Democrat congressman, John Sparkman won the primary with 50.14% of the vote. Frank W. Boykin, U.S. Representative...
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  • against John Sparkman. Grenier only won 39 percent of the vote but it was the highest percentage of the vote that anybody had won against Sparkman in Sparkman's...
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    "Matt" Garcia and drummer Joe Daniels, along with lead guitarist John Sparkman. Sparkman left the band in 1991, and Garcia left in 1993, and Lucas added...
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    was elected to the United States Senate to succeed fellow Democrat John Sparkman, who had been Adlai E. Stevenson's running mate in the 1952 presidential...
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  • with different occupations. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Sparkman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and President Harry S. Truman are...
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    them of the evidence they needed to convict Levy. In 1975, Senators John Sparkman and George McGovern traveled to Cuba and met with officials there. In...
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    1960. Incumbent Senator John Sparkman was re-elected to a third full term in office over Republican Julian Elgin. Zeke Calhoun John G. Crommelin, retired...
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    election in Alabama was held on November 2, 1954. Incumbent Senator John Sparkman was re-elected to a second full term in office over Republican Junius...
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  • Sparkman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Glenn Sparkman (born 1992), American baseball pitcher John Sparkman (1899–1985), American...
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  • William Edwin "Bill" Sparkman Jr. (August 12, 1958 – September 12, 2009) was an American schoolteacher and Field Representative for the United States Census...
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    under 10%: In 1946, John H. Bankhead II suffered a stroke during a U.S. Senate hearing and died three weeks later. John Sparkman, who had served as U...
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    Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson for president and Alabama Senator John Sparkman for vice president. The California delegation to the 1952 Republican...
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    8, 1966. Incumbent Senator John Sparkman was re-elected to a fourth full term in office over Republican John Grenier. John G. Crommelin, retired U.S....
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    was nominated on the third ballot. The convention then chose Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, a conservative and segregationist, as Stevenson's running...
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    majority, of electoral votes cast. The election was thrown to the House, and John Quincy Adams was elected president. A deep rivalry resulted between Andrew...
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    was named after senator and former vice presidential nominee John Jackson Sparkman. Sparkman is one of the largest high schools in northern Alabama and...
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    election in Alabama was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Senator John Sparkman was re-elected to a fifth full term in office over Postmaster General...
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    popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 43.24% of the popular vote. This result made Ohio around 2.6%...
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    was chaired by Senator John Sparkman, and included Senators Carl Hayden and Styles Bridges, and Representatives Sam Rayburn, John W. McCormack, and Charles...
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    held on November 2, 1948. Senator John Sparkman, who was first elected in 1946 to finish the incomplete term of John Bankhead II, was re-elected to a full...
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    Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator John Sparkman of Alabama. Eisenhower won Connecticut by a margin of 11.79%. New Haven...
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    popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 44.97% of the popular vote. In contrast to Herbert Hoover's...
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    agreeing to a party loyalty pledge. Segregationist Alabama Senator John Sparkman was selected as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1952, helping...
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    was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Alabama Senator John Sparkman, with 69.66% of the popular vote, against Columbia University President...
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    popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 49.14 percent of the popular vote. Missouri weighed in for this...
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    John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge was originally known as the Sparkman Street Bridge and was built one block south of Broadway, connecting Sparkman...
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