
Chauncey Sparks (8 October 1884-6 November 1968) was the Democratic Governor of Alabama from 19 January 1943 to 20 January 1947, succeeding Frank M. Dixon and preceding Jim Folsom.
Biography[]
Chauncey Sparks was born in Barbour County, Alabama in 1884, and he was raised in Quitman County, Georgia before returning to Alabama to become a lawyer in Eufaula. He served as a judge from 1911 to 1915, in the State House from 1919 to 1923 and from 1931 to 1939, and Governor from 1943 to 1947. Sparks was a conservative who was opposed to organized labor, social welfare, progressive taxation, and anything that smacked of collectivism, and he believed in "absolute segregation" and maintaining an "all-white party". He died in 1968.