Oral history interview with Thomas A. Spragens, 1982 Nov.
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Thomas A. Spragens was born on April 25, 1917, in Lebanon, Ky. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1938, he worked in the Kentucky Department of Revenue. From 1940 to 1945, he served in the federal government, including senior analyst at the Bureau of the Budget and Assistant Chief of Food Allocations in the wartime Foreign Economic Administration. In the summer of 1946, Spragens accepted a position to assist the president of Stanford University in managing development problems c...