David Sprague
David Shafer Sprague was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was inducted into the Canadian [Football Hall of Fame] in 1963 and into the Canada's [Sports Hall of Fame] in 1975.
Sprague represented Elmdale Ward for one year on Ottawa City Council in 1940. In the 1940 Ottawa [municipal election|1940 election] he ran for a seat on the Ottawa [Board of Control], but lost.