Abraham Lincoln Spradling (June 19, 1885 – May 22, 1970) was an American labor union leader.
Born in Woodford County, Kentucky, Spradling became a driver for the Cincinnati Traction Company in 1903, and soon joined the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America.
[1] Spradling was elected to the union's executive board in 1935, and the following year became an assistant to the union's president, William D. Mahon.
He also became a director of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company.
[1][2][3] By the late 1950s, Spradling was in poor health, and this led him to retire in 1959.