id: ocd-person/092dd5d6-fb25-494c-ad16-78f0034df92f
name: Mike Sparks
given_name: Mike
family_name: Sparks
birth_date: 1967-01-11
gender: Male
email: rep.mike.sparks@capitol.tn.gov
image: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/images/h49.jpg
party:
- name: Republican
roles:
- start_date: 2010-11-02
  type: lower
  jurisdiction: ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:tn/government
  district: '49'
offices:
- classification: capitol
  address: Room 532, Cordell Hull Building 425 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville,
    TN 37243
  voice: 615-741-6829
links:
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=H49
  note: homepage
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member?district=H49
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/h49.html
other_names:
- name: M. Sparks
- name: M.J. Sparks
- name: Sparks, M
- name: Sparks, M.
other_identifiers:
- scheme: legacy_openstates
  identifier: TNL000116
- scheme: legacy_openstates
  identifier: TNL000245
- scheme: legacy_openstates
  identifier: TNL000346
sources:
- url: https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Sparks_(Tennessee)
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sparks
- url: https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/99698/mike-sparks
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/LegislatorInfo/directory.aspx?chamber=H
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=H49
- url: https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member?district=H49
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/
- url: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/h49.html
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-sparks-73783646
extras:
  office: 532 CHB
  personal info:
  - Born January 11, 1967
  - Married for 34 years, with two children
  - Baptist
  - Business Owner, Business Consultant, Author, Entrepreneur, Publisher and Radio
    Spokesperson
  - CCIM Commercial Real Estate
  - A.A. of Mass Communication, Motlow State Community College
  - EMT, Volunteer State Community College
  - Graduated Nashville School of Real Estate and Dale Carnegie Institute
  - Graduated Middle Tennessee State University