Jo Ann Sprague
American politician
Jo Ann Allen Sprague (born November 3, 1931) is a former Massachusetts State Representative (1993–1998) and State Senator (1999–2004) from Walpole. In the Massachusetts Senate she represented the Norfolk, Bristol, and Plymouth district, but moved in 2003 to the Bristol and Norfolk district. Previously she was a State Representative from the 9th Norfolk district. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Biography
Sprague was born in Nashville, Tennessee as Jo Ann Allen. As a child, her family moved around the country, including Houston and Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Ramsey Technical High School in 1949.
In 1950, she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps. She met her husband, Warren, a young military policeman, while stationed at Second Army Headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and married in 1952. Due to her husband's sales job, they moved frequently but ended up in Walpole, MA in 1962.
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