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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaStephen Milancthon SPARKMAN
(1849-1929)
SPARKMAN, Stephen
Milancthon, a Representative from Florida; born on a farm in
Hernando County, Fla., July 29, 1849; attended the common schools;
taught school 1867-1870; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1872 and commenced practice in Tampa, Fla.; State’s attorney
for the sixth judicial circuit 1878-1887; declined the position of
circuit judge for the sixth judicial circuit in 1888 and also the
appointment of associate justice of the supreme court of the State
in 1891; member of the county Democratic executive committee
1890-1894 and served as chairman in 1890 and 1891; member of the
State Democratic executive committee 1892-1896, serving as
chairman; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth and to the ten succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committee on
Rivers and Harbors (Sixty-second through Sixty-fourth Congresses);
did not seek renomination in 1916; resumed the practice of law in
Tampa, Fla.; president of the board of port commissioners until
1920; died in Washington, D.C., September 26, 1929; interment in
Woodlawn Cemetery, Tampa, Fla.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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