Show SPROUL PROUL fX VANIA GOVERNOR DIES I CHESTER Pa March 22 AP Al' William C. C Sproul former governor governor governor gover gover- nor of or Pennsylvania ana Is dead at his home near hero here t 1 The end came last night ight after an illness of ot more than a a year car from a complication of dt diseases He Ito was was 57 7 years cars old The apex of ot his political career came in lit 1920 when his name was placed before the Republican n n. n national national na nn- na- na c convention in Chicago for tho the to the presidency After ter fter receiving receiving- six eighty votes through seven seen ballots he w withdrew to permit the nomina nomination on of ot Warren G. G Harding Hard ing and refused s to consider the proffer proU r of any other office J. J Hampton Moore former formel nta mayor or oror of or Philadelphia who pl placed Mr Sproul's Sprouts name In nomination s said ald Ithe the thie former governor might have been pr president of ot the United States if he ho had heeded the advice of ot his friends and agreed to stand stan J. J for vice pr president Both Harding and Lowden per pcr and strong strong- contenders for the presidency said Mr Moore would have agreed to Sproul for vice president As it subsequently turned out Calvin Coolidge became the Ithe Vice ilce presidential nominee and tind succeeded to the presidency upon the death of ot President Harding Mr Sproul served as governor c 0 i Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923 I I Prior to that he had served twenty- twenty two years in the state senate Alter After his retirement from political political cal life Ute at the close of ot his his' term as governor he devoted most of of hh his his' I time to to his business interests These included banking shipbuilding ing iron and steel street strett railways I and coal mining |