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John Horris Sprockel (9 August 1892 – 8 April 1970) was politician of the
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. He was born on
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as the son of Cornelis Colonis Sprockel and Helena Paulina Antersijn. He went to the Netherlands in 1904 to study in Den Bosch to become a teacher at an elementary school. After working as a teacher in Tilburg, he returned to Curaçao in 1916 and he started teaching at the Hendrikschool. From 1925 he was in the Netherlands for two years to receive further education. Amigoe di Curacao, 8 August 1942 In 1931 he was appointed head of the Hendrikschool. A year later, Governor Slobbe appointed him to the Koloniale Raad (parliament), succeeding R.J. Beaujon. Sprockel became in 1938 one of five members appointed by the governor while the other ten members were elected. After the election in 1941 he became an elected member of the
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(successor to the Koloniale Raad) and he has also been its speaker. Furthermore, like
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, the capital city of Curaçao, there is a street called after him: ''Kaya John Horris Sprockel''.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sprockel, John Horris 1892 births 1970 deaths Government ministers of the Netherlands Antilles Speakers of the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles 20th-century Dutch politicians