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William Leach Spicer (October 10, 1918 – September 23, 1991)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Leach Spicer )〕 was a businessman from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who from 1962 to 1964 was the embattled state chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. Originally supported for the position by Winthrop Rockefeller of Morrilton, Spicer soon broke with Rockefeller, the party's key financial backer, over matters of policy issues and party function. Spicer declined to seek reelection as the chairman, but he had resisted intraparty calls that he resign before his term ended in August 1964. He suggested that he could support a "Republicans for Faubus" organization against Rockefeller's gubernatorial bid in 1964, but he remained committed to Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona, whom Rockefeller supported once Goldwater was nominated.〔''Northwest Arkansas Times'', May 20, 1964, p. 20〕 ==Background== A native of Yell County in western Arkansas, Spicer was the only child of William Jacob Spicer (1893-1979), a Methodist minister for sixty-four years, and the former Ora Leach (1896-1989), hence his middle name. The couple married in 1917 in Logan County, Arkansas.〔 William J. and Ora Spicer are interred at Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery in Booneville in Logan County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Reverend William Jacob Spicer (1893-1979) )〕 Spicer's paternal grandparents were Monroe Moses Spicer (1876-1926) and the former Delia C. Cummings (1873-1957); they are interred at Stony Point Cemetery, also in Logan County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Descendants of William Henry Spicer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stony Point Cemetery )〕 In the 1930 census, Spicer was living with his parents in Woodruff County in eastern Arkansas.〔 In the 1940 census, Spicer, then twenty-one, was listed as residing still with his parents in Wynne in Cross County, also in eastern Arkansas, where his father, then forty-six, was a pastor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William L. Spicer in the 1940 census )〕 In 1946, Spicer married the former Freda Cowell in Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, possibly while having been on military duty during World War II. The couple had three children, David, Michael, and Sarah Spicer. Mrs. Spicer died in Australia in 1983.〔Penny Spicer, Spicer family genealogical research〕 The owner of a chain of drive-in theaters, Spicer in 1956 challenged the incumbent Democrat James William Trimble of Berryville for Arkansas' 3rd congressional district seat and received 34,318 votes (38.7 percent) to Trimble's 54,281 (61.3 percent). Spicer carried Newton and Searcy counties but lost his own Sebastian County, where he polled 46.7 percent of the ballots. Spicer finished six percentage points behind the 1952 Republican congressional candidate, John H. "Jack" Joyce, an attorney from Fayetteville and a fighter pilot in World War II who in that campaign opposed the continuation of the Korean War.,〔''Arkansas Gazette'', November 5, 1952〕〔Arkansas Secretary of State, Election returns, November 4, 1952 and November 6, 1956〕 Spicer's fellow Republican, Ben C. Henley, a lawyer from Harrison in Boone County, also in northwestern Arkansas, ran that year against U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright but finished with only 17 percent of the vote.〔Arkansas Secretary of State, Election returns, November 6, 1956〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William L. Spicer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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