William H. Sproul

William Henry Sproul (* October 14, 1867 in Livingston, Overton County, Tennessee, † December 27, 1932 in Kansas City, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1931 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Sproul attended the public schools of his home. In 1883 he came with his parents in the Cherokee County, Kansas. He worked on a farm and in mines. He also attended Columbus High School and the Kansas Normal College at Fort Scott. Between 1888 and 1892 he was a teacher in Columbus. After studying law at Kansas State University and his made ​​in 1894 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Sedan.

Sproul was a member of the Republican Party. From 1897 to 1901 he was district attorney in Chautauqua County. Between 1921 and 1923 he was mayor of the city of Sedan. In the meantime he was in agriculture, especially in the livestock, works. He also began to be interested in the oil and gas business. In 1922 he was in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1923 the successor of Philip P. Campbell. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 four legislative sessions. From 1929 to 1931 he was Chairman of the Mining Committee. His final term in Congress was overshadowed by the events of the Great Depression.

In 1930 Sproul gave up another candidacy. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the Senate elections. Then he took his previous activities on again. William Sproul died in December 1932 at a hospital in Kansas City.