Background
Spence, John Selby was born on February 29, 1788 in near Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland, United States.
politician representative senator
Spence, John Selby was born on February 29, 1788 in near Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland, United States.
Born near Snow Hill, Maryland, Spence attended the common schools and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1809 and practiced in Worcester County, Maryland.
In 1822, Spence was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, and served from March 4, 1823 to March 3, 1825. He was again elected as an Anti-Jacksonian in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress, and served from March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1833. In 1836, Spence was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian (later Whig) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert H. Goldsborough.
He was reelected in 1837, and served from December 31, 1836 until his death near Berlin, Maryland, in 1840.
He is interred in the Episcopal Churchyard.
Member Maryland; member Maryland. Member United States House Member United States Senate (filled vacancy) from Maryland.