Soeparto was born in Gunung Pati, Semarang on 31 July 1929 as the oldest child[1] of Tjitrodihardjo and Sumini.

Despite his involvement in battles, Soeparto managed to continue his education, and graduated from a teacher's school in Magelang in 1948.

He then studied governance sciences at the Gadjah Mada University (UGM) and received a scholarship from the Department of Home Affairs.

He became the head of a section inside the department's election bureau for about six months before returning to complete his degree in UGM.

During his tenure in West Kalimantan, Soeparto attended a non-degree course at the Department of Political Science College of Liberal Arts in the Wayne State University in 1962.

Afterwards, he was nominated by Golkar for the Central Java Regional People's Representative Council in the 1992 Indonesian legislative election.

[8] Upon the end of his term in the council, Soeparto joined the '45 Generation board in Central Java, an organization for Indonesian National Revolution veterans, and became its chairman.

He was nominated by the party for the People's Representative Council in the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, but failed to secure a seat.