Sparkman, John, 1899-1985

Shown together are members of the Joint Congressional Inaugural Committee of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives. Left to right are: Rep. John McCormack, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Chairman Edward H. Foley, Rep. Sam Rayburn, Senator John J. Sparkman, and Senator Carl Hayden.

From left to right: Congressman Pete Jarman, Senator Lister Hill, President Harry S. Truman and Senator John Sparkman. They presented President Truman with a bushel basket of peaches from the Chilton County Peach Festival in Alabama.

Group of United States Senators and Representatives on a Truman Committee inspection trip in 1939. From left to right: Congressman Charles R. Clason; Congressman Thomas E. Martin; Senator John Sparkman; Senator Chan Gurney; Major John E. Upston; Congressman John M. Costello; Lieutenant General Calvin Stockley; Senator Elmer Thomas; Senator Harry S. Truman; Congressman Paul W. Shafer; Lieutenant General Devers; and Brigadier General Arthur Wilson.

President Harry S. Truman signing the National Housing Act of 1949. Looking on, from left to right, are: Senator Burnet Maybank, Senator Ralph Flanders, Senator John Sparkman, and Housing Administrator Raymond Foley.

Raymond Foley, administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, sits at a desk surrounded by eight men standing behind him. The man third from the left is Senator John Sparkman. The man standing fifth from the left is Congressman Benjamin F. James. All others are unidentified. He is signing a capital grant for slum clearance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

President Harry S. Truman (left), Senator John J. Sparkman (center), and Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois (right) are seated around Truman's desk at the White House reading a document. Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Sparkman are the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively, of the Democratic Party. This photo comes from the General Scrapbook, Volume III, 1950-1952.

The 1952 Democratic Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates arrive at the White House for a meeting with President Harry S. Truman. From left to right: Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate John Sparkman; Governor and Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson; White House Press Secretary Joseph Short; Mr. Blair; and White House Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly. The photographer in the background is unidentified. This photo comes from the General Scrapbook, Volume III, 1950-1952.

Raymond Foley and others gather at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Convention in Chicago, Illinois. From left to right: B. T. King of the Veterans Administration, Federal Housing Administration National Commissioner Frank Richards, Senator John Sparkman, Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Raymond Foley, and NAHB President Tom Coogan.

Raymond Foley and others gather at the National Association of Home Builders Convention in Chicago, Illinois. From left to right: unidentified man, Federal Housing Administration National Commissioner Frank Richards, Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Raymond M. Foley, Senator John Sparkman, and B. T. King of the Veterans Administration.