Charles Isaac Sparks was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Kansas

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Born on a farm near Ontario, in Jackson Township, Iowa

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, Sparks was educated in the rural schools and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa

Indianola, Iowa

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He was graduated from the law department

University of Iowa College of Law

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 of the State University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1896.
He was admitted to the bar

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 the same year and commenced practice in Boone, Iowa

Boone, Iowa

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He served as prosecuting attorney of Boone County 1899-1902.
He served as chairman of the Republican county committee in 1898.
He moved to Goodland, Kansas

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, in 1907 and continued the practice of law.
He served as city attorney and was a member of the Goodland School Board.
He served as judge of the thirty-fourth judicial district of Kansas 1915-1929.

Sparks was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-first

71st United States Congress

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 and Seventy-second

72nd United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933).
He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback

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, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third

73rd United States Congress

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 Congress.
He resumed the practice of law in Goodland, Kansas

Goodland, Kansas

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, until his death there on April 30, 1937.
He was interred in the Goodland Cemetery.

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