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John Spargo was born on January thirty-first of 1876 in Cornwall, U.K. to his parents Jane and Thomas Spargo.
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Spargo, although primarily self educated, did take a couple classes at Oxford University.
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John and Prudence were wed in January of 1900, having one son named George.
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John participated in various union meetings throughout 1900 and was part of the creation of the Labour Representation Committee, a precursor to the British Labour Party.
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John became an editor for The Comrade, a socialist magazine. He worked there for about three years.
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John became a founding member in the Socialist Party of America, although he was not present at the time of its creation.
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John's wife died in March 1904 of tuberculosis.
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At the SPA's second convention, Spargo was declared the chairman of the resolutions comittee.
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John was elected to be on the SPA's National Committee in 1905.
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He wrote his novel about child labor which had hints of his socialist views in 1905.
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He wrote his book about child starvation in 1906.
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He wrote this second book on child starvation in 1908.
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He was elected to be a delegate for the 1908 SPA convention.
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He was elected to be on the National Executive Committee of the SPA in 1909.
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John co-founded another socialist group, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and worked toward its ends for three years.
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By this time, Spargo had developed right wing ideas that he called socialist individualism.
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His years after 1930 were filled with many different things unrelated to politics or muckraker activity.
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Spargo died on an unmarked day in 1966.