Everything about Felix L Sparks totally explained
Brigadier General Felix Sparks (born
August 2,
1917,
San Antonio, Texas, died
September 25 2007,
Colorado) was the commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment of the
45th Infantry Division of the
United States Army which was the first
Allied force to enter
Dachau concentration camp and liberate its prisoners.
Sparks grew up in
Miami, Arizona, where his father worked for a copper mining company. In 1935, after unsuccessfully seeking jobs in the shipyards of
Corpus Christi, Texas and
San Francisco, he enlisted in the
U.S. Army.
After leaving the army, Sparks graduated from the
University of Colorado Law School in 1947. He practiced law in
Delta, Colorado and was elected
district attorney there. He lost his bid for reelection in 1952, but Governor Ed Johnson appointed him to fill an unexpired term on the
Colorado Supreme Court. At the end of that term, he returned to his law practice in Delta.
Sparks subsequently joined the
United States National Guard, serving during the
Cuban Missile Crisis of
1962, and retired in
1979 having attained the rank of
Brigadier General.
Sparks died from complications due to pneumonia on September 25, 2007.
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