Spratt, 82, a Democrat, died Saturday. He was the 5th District representative in Congress from South Carolina from 1982 until ...

“Elective politics is a worthy pursuit,” he told the Davidson Journal. “I would like to leave a legacy of assurance that in public office you can make a difference. I hope my experience can be a ...

Mr. Spratt, an Ivy League and Oxford graduate whose father was a prominent lawyer and banker in York, combined the ...

Longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt has died at the age of 82.A Carolina native, Spratt was born in Charlotte, NC ...

John Spratt, a longtime member of the U.S. Congress from South Carolina, died Saturday night, his daughter said. “I am heartbroken to announce that my father passed away last night,” Catherine ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades ...

Democrat John Spratt, a longtime South Carolina congressman who played a key role in the passage of America’s last balanced budget, died Saturday, his daughter said. He was 82. Over 28 years in ...

John M. Spratt Jr., a Democrat who served for 28 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he chaired the Budget Committee and was known on both sides of the aisle as a conscientious ...