Background
Sarpalius (pronounced Sons of the American Revolution POL Instruction Section) was born in Los Angeles, California.
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Sarpalius (pronounced Sons of the American Revolution POL Instruction Section) was born in Los Angeles, California.
He first attended Clarendon College in Clarendon in Donley County. He subsequently received a Bachelor of Science degree in agribusiness from Texas Technical University in Lubbock, from which he was later named a distinguished alumnus.
By the time he was nineteen, Sarpalius was the state president of the Future Farmers of America. In 1972, Sarpalius was hired by Farley"s Ranch as a vocational agriculture teacher at the school. In 1978, he left the ranch to return to school and received an Master of Business Administration from West Texas State University in Canyon, Texas.
He then launched a career in agribusiness.
He has a son, David William Sarpalius, from a former marriage. Sarpalius is Catholic and affiliated with Lions International and the Masonic lodge.
In 1980, Sarpalius successfully ran for a seat in the Texas State Senate, a body in which he served until 1989. Sarpalius was one of a number of congressman involved in drafting the guidelines of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
As a Lithuanian-American, Sarapalius called for American aid to the newly independent country of Lithuania, which was severed from the former Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War.
In 1998, he was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas by the President of Lithuania. Sarpalius gained a second term in the House in 1990, when he defeated the Republican State Representative Richard A. Waterfield of Canadian in Hemphill County, who resigned from the legislature to make the congressional race. In 1992, Sarpalius halted the bid to return to Congress waged by former Republican United States. Representative Beau Boulter of Amarillo, who vacated the House seat in 1988, when he waged a failed campaign to oust Democratic United States. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen.
In 1994, Sarpalius was one of a large number of Democrats unseated in the Republican Revolution.
He lost to Mac Thornberry, who still holds the seat. Afterwards, Sarpalius was appointed by United States. President Bill Clinton as a top official in the United States. Department of Agriculture.
He is currently the chief executive officer of Advantage Associates, a powerful Washington consulting firm made up of former elected officials.
He was elected in 1988 to the United States. House of Representatives, where he was a member of the Agricultural Committee.