Albert Franklin Spencer
Profile of a Conservative Candidate of the Republican Party for • Date and Place of Birth: 12-31-43, Pittsburgh, PA • Hometown: Gaffney, South Carolina • Religion: Catholic • Marital Status: Married Wife: Sue Wife’s Profession: Jewelry Designer. Former Social Worker. Step-Daughter: Flannery Heath Step-Son: Russell Yopp Grandchildren: Sydney, Kaelyn, and Taylor Heath • Profession: Professor, Limestone College, Gaffney, South Carolina. Thirty years of experience as a teacher and coach in schools and colleges. Began teaching career at an American Indian school. Has taught at Atlanta University, a historically black institution of higher learning, as well as at Emory University, Rice University and UNLV. Author of several articles on ethics in society. • Education: - B.S in Education, Slippery Rock State College, 1966 • Honors: - Member of “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in American Education.” • Business: As a Kmart unit manager, Spencer’s department led all Kmarts throughout the United States in retail sales in 1973-74 • Military: Earned a passing score on all phases of the U.S. Air Force Officer’s Candidacy Exam, but a football injury precluded service. Three years experience as a recruiter for the United States Army Reserves • Civic:
Additional Information: Favorite Book: The Holy Bible Favorite Movies: “Fiddler on the Roof” (Musical) and “Chariots of Fire” (Ethics and courage) Favorite Actor: John Wayne Favorite Musician: Elvis Presley Favorite President: Ronald Reagan Heroes: My parents Biography Albert always wanted to teach at a small, liberal arts college, similar to the one he had attended as a young undergraduate, and believes that the students, faculty, staff, and administration at Limestone College are superb. He thoroughly appreciates the respect for family and reverence for religion that exists in South Carolina. At an early age, Albert learned the importance of the Golden Rule. His family fostered a love of the Bible and of church attendance. His mother’s parents came to the U.S.A. from Poland, a nation that is 90% Catholic. He often listened to his grandmother speaking of the beauty of the rural countryside and the religious traditions that the oppressed people of that nation clung to in spite of frequent wars, famine and other tremendous hardships. His uncles on his father’s side were a Methodist minister and a Salvation Army Officer. Several cousins and close friends are Baptist, Presbyterian, and Moravian. The need to treat others as your self, regardless of race, culture, or creed, was impressed upon Albert’s value system initially by his parents and then via his own experiences. His mother and her sisters had often encountered derogatory name calling by their classmates because their parents were immigrants and still spoke little English. Albert describes his parents as “the most intelligent and kindest man and woman I’ve ever met.” Albert comes from a family, who although poor to lower middle class, never gave up on the American dream of trying to make life better for themselves and, especially, for their children. He learned the importance of hard work, responsibility, loyalty, and thrift, not from books, but from life experiences. It is from these roots that he offers himself as a candidate to represent true conservative values for the citizens of the 5th Congressional District of South Carolina.
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