Richard Sprigg

Richard Sprigg Jr. (born around 1769 in Prince George's County , Province of Maryland , †  1806 in Charleston , South Carolina ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1796 and 1802 he represented the state of Maryland twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Sprigg was a nephew of Congressman Thomas Sprigg (1747-1809). Both the exact date of his birth and his death have not been recorded. Nothing is known about his youth and school days either. But he must have studied law because he later worked as a lawyer. Sprigg served in the Maryland House of Representatives in 1792 and 1793 . In the late 1790s, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson .

After the resignation of MP Gabriel Duvall , Sprigg was elected at the by-election for the second seat of Maryland as his successor to the US House of Representatives, which was still in Philadelphia at the time , where he took up his new mandate on May 5, 1796. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1799 . In the congressional elections of 1800 he was re-elected in the second constituency of his state in the now meeting in the new federal capital Washington, DC , where he succeeded John Chew Thomas on March 4, 1801 . He held this mandate until his resignation on February 11, 1802. Sprigg was then a judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals . He died in Charleston in 1806.

Web links

• Richard Sprigg in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)