Papers, [190-?]-[196-?].

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Papers, [190-?]-[196-?].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122388466

The Chauncey Sparks papers contain a variety of materials relating primarily to Chauncey Sparks' legal career, banking interests, and political activities from the 1920s to the 1950s. Newspaper clippings, speeches, and scrapbooks in the collection relate mostly to his one term as governor and to his two failed campaigns for that office in 1938 and 1950. Assorted printed materials such as magazines and pamphlets collected over his long life are also in the collection. Additionally included is correspondence with prominent political figures in Alabama and the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s.

41 cubic ft. (32 records center cartons and 28 scrapbooks).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6698702

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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This collection was created by the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History. From the description of Education publications, 1838-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122558147 ...

Kilby, Thomas Erby, 1865-1943

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Folsom, James Elisha

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James E. Folsom was born 1908 Oct. 9 to Joshua Marion and Eulala Cornelia Dunnavant Folsom in Farmer's Academy, Coffee County, Ala. When he was two the Folsom family moved to Elba. James E. was the sixth of seven children. Folsom attended public schools and attended both the University of Ala. and Howard College for short stints in the years 1927-1929. During the Depression Folsom worked in the Civil Works Administration, heading up the Marshall Co. office until 1934. He...

Alabama. Governor (1943-1947 : Sparks)

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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965

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Dixon was born 1892 July 25 to Frank and Launa Murray Dixon in Oakland, Cal. In 1906 he entered Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H.; then attended Columbia University for one term. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1916 with an LL.B., and was admitted to the Ala. bar in 1917. That same year he entered the U.S. Army and fought overseas in World War I. He was attached to the French Army as an aerial observer. On 1918 July 21 he was wounded, which caused the amputation of hi...

Sparks, Chauncey, 1884-1968

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Chauncey Sparks was a prominent public figure who served in a variety of positions in Alabama, including Barbour County inferior court judge, Eufaula city attorney, and Alabama Department of Archives and History trustee. He also served in the Alabama state legislature, and from 1943 to 1947, he was governor of the state. From the description of Papers, [190-?]-[196-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122388466 ...