Representative James W. Spradling View All Years

JAMES W. SPRADLING

James W. Spradling was born on September 6, 1923 in Liberal Kansas. He graduated from Pratt High School. During World War II he served three years in the Army Air Corp.

In 1948, he married Marilyn Hunt and they raised five children together. When he returned from service, he attended Wichita State University, receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history. Later he completed his doctorate in educational psychology at the University of South Dakota. For many years he was educator and principal in Kansas. While in Iowa he taught at Northwestern College in Orange City, became a school psychologist at AEA 4 in northwest Iowa and eventually retired in 1985 as a supervisor of psychologists and coordinator of social services. He was a member of the American Psychological Association, Iowa Psychological Association, Iowa School Psychologists Association, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, American Personnel and Guidance Association, Phi Delta Kappa.

James was a Democrat from Sioux County. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in the fall of 1974, serving in the Sixty-sixth General Assembly.

Representative Spradling passed away on August 31, 2012 at the age of 89.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EIGHTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF IOWA, That in the passing of the Honorable James W. Spradling, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this Resolution would express its appreciation of his service.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

DWAYNE ALONS

DAVE DAWSON

Committee