Charles I. Sparks

Charles Isaac Sparks (* December 20 1872 in Ontario, Boone County, Iowa, † April 30, 1937 in Goodland, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in Jackson Township Charles Sparks attended the public schools of his home in Iowa and the Simpson College in Indianola. After studying law at the State University of Iowa and its made ​​in 1896 Admitted to the Bar Sparks began to practice in his new profession in Boone. Between 1899 and 1902 he was district attorney in Boone County. Politically, Sparks member of the Republican Party. In 1898 he was chairman of the party in his district. In 1907 he moved his residence and his law firm to Goodland in Sherman County, Kansas. He was also a lawyer of this city; He also was a member of school committee. From 1915 to 1929 Sparks judges in the 34th Judicial District of Kansas.

1928 Sparks was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hays B. White on March 4, 1929. After a re-election in 1930 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 two legislative sessions. In Congress he was a prosecutor in the impeachment proceedings against the California federal judge Harold Louderback. Shortly before the end of his last term of the 20th Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933, by which the beginning and end of the terms of office of the President and the Congress were revised.

In the 1932 elections Sparks lost to Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy of the Democratic Party. After the end of his time in Congress, he worked until his death in 1937, again as a lawyer.