A St. Louis County Republican state representative resigned on Monday to take a job in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

State Rep. Justin Sparks was in his third year in the Missouri House representing the state’s Wildwood-based 110th House District. In a resignation letter posted on Facebook, Sparks said that his “entire professional life has been one of service and that will continue as I join the Department of Homeland Security and join in the mission of keeping our nation safe.”

“I fervently pray that God, in His righteous wisdom, will pour out the Spirit of Truth on all of my fellow colleagues as they continue to engage in a government of the People, by the People and for the People,” Sparks said in his resignation letter.

In a subsequent Facebook post, Sparks said he did

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