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- Joseph_Sprigg abstract "Joseph Sprigg (October 1835 – November 3, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Sprigg served as the sixth Attorney General of West Virginia from January 1, 1871, until December 31, 1872, and was the first Democrat to serve in the post. Sprigg was an organizer of the Democratic Party of West Virginia and the West Virginia Bar Association, of which he served as its inaugural president.Sprigg was born in 1835 on his father's farm in Hampshire County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia). He was a descendant of English pioneer Thomas Cresap, a nephew of Maryland lawyer John Van Lear McMahon, and U.S. House Representatives James Sprigg, Michael Sprigg, and Clement Vallandigham. He studied jurisprudence in Baltimore and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1858. Following a hiatus during the American Civil War, Sprigg relocated to Moorefield, West Virginia, in 1866 and established a law partnership with former judge J. W. F. Allen. That year, Sprigg was instrumental in organizing the Democratic Party of West Virginia. In 1870, he was selected as the party's nominee for Attorney General of West Virginia, won election to the post and served from 1871 until 1872. During his term as attorney general, Sprigg decided that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company was subject to taxation by the state; the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which sustained Sprigg's decision. In 1886, Sprigg organized the West Virginia Bar Association; after being elected the inaugural president, he delivered the opening address at the organization's first meeting. Sprigg was elected to several terms as mayor of Moorefield and was afterward elected to a seat in West Virginia House of Delegates in 1888 representing the Second Delegate District, which consisted of Grant and Hardy counties. Following the disputed 1888 gubernatorial election between Aretas B. Fleming and Nathan Goff, Jr., Sprigg was appointed in 1889 as secretary of a joint committee of the West Virginia Legislature charged with investigating and deciding the results of the election.Sprigg relocated to Cumberland in 1890. He was one of three incorporators of the Allegany County Bar Association, and in 1899 he was elected by the association as one of its directors. He unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Cumberland city council in 1905 and a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1907. In response to pollution of the North Branch Potomac River, Sprigg became chairman of the Pure Water League and waged a successful campaign to require the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company to abandon the sulfite process of pulping in favor of a cleaner soda pulping method. While chairman of the Allegany County Democratic Convention in 1907, a resolution supporting an eight-hour workday was formally adopted by the convention. In 1908, he was appointed city attorney for Cumberland. Following a prolonged illness, he died in 1911.".
- Joseph_Sprigg birthPlace Hampshire_County,_West_Virginia.
- Joseph_Sprigg birthPlace West_Virginia.
- Joseph_Sprigg deathDate "1911-11-03".
- Joseph_Sprigg deathPlace Cumberland,_Maryland.
- Joseph_Sprigg governor John_J._Jacob_(West_Virginia).
- Joseph_Sprigg governor William_E._Stevenson.
- Joseph_Sprigg office "6thAttorney General of West Virginia".
- Joseph_Sprigg office "Member of theWest Virginia House of Delegatesfrom the 2nd Delegate District".
- Joseph_Sprigg party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- Joseph_Sprigg predecessor Aquilla_B._Caldwell.
- Joseph_Sprigg relation Clement_Vallandigham.
- Joseph_Sprigg relation James_Sprigg.
- Joseph_Sprigg relation John_A._McMahon.
- Joseph_Sprigg relation John_Van_Lear_McMahon.
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- Joseph_Sprigg religion Episcopal_Church_(United_States).
- Joseph_Sprigg residence Cumberland,_Maryland.
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- Joseph_Sprigg residence Moorefield,_West_Virginia.
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- Joseph_Sprigg restingPlace Cumberland,_Maryland.
- Joseph_Sprigg restingPlace Maryland.
- Joseph_Sprigg successor Henry_M._Mathews.
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