Richard Sprigg, Jr.

Richard Sprigg Jr. ( * 1769 in Prince George's County, Maryland, † 1806 in Charleston, South Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1796 and 1802 he represented two times the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Sprigg was a nephew of Congressman Thomas Sprigg ( 1747-1809 ). Both his exact birth and his date of death are not known. Also about his youth and schooling is not known. But he must have studied law, because he later worked as a lawyer. In the years 1792 and 1793 Sprigg was sitting in the House of Representatives from Maryland. End of the 1790s he joined the then founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Mr Gabriel Duvall Sprigg was elected in the by-election due for the second seat of Maryland as his successor in the Council, meeting at that time still in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on May 5, 1796. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1799 in Congress. In the congressional elections of 1800 he was again in the second electoral district of his state in the meantime in the new federal capital, Washington DC chosen meeting within Congress, where he became the successor of John Chew Thomas on March 4, 1801. This mandate he held until his resignation on 11 February 1802. Then Sprigg was a judge at the Maryland Court of Appeals. He died in 1806 in Charleston.