Jo Ann Sprague

Jo Ann Sprague (born November 3, 1931) is a former Massachusetts State Representative (1993–1998) and State Senator (1999–2004) from Walpole. In the Massachusetts Senate she represented the Norfolk, Bristol, and Plymouth district, but moved in 2003 to the Bristol and Norfolk district. Previously she was a State Representative from the 9th Norfolk district. She is a member of the Republican Party.

Jo Ann Sprague
Member of the
Massachusetts Senate
In office
1999–2004
Preceded byWilliam R. Keating
Succeeded byJames E. Timilty
ConstituencyNorfolk, Bristol, and Plymouth district (1999–2002)
Bristol and Norfolk district (2003–04)
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 9th Norfolk district
In office
1993–1999
Preceded byFrancis H. Woodward
Succeeded byScott Brown
Personal details
BornNovember 3, 1931
Nashville, Tennessee
Political partyRepublican
ResidenceWalpole, Massachusetts
OccupationLegislator

Biography

Sprague was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1980 with a B.A. in classical studies. She served as a selectman in Walpole, Massachusetts from 1977 to 1980, a member of the Walpole Capital Budget committee from 1980 to 1992, a member of the Walpole Republican Town Committee. She was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served from 1993 to 1998, then served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1999 to 2004.[1] She ran for the United States House of Representatives in 2001 to represent Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, but lost to Democratic opponent Stephen Lynch.[2]

gollark: C is actually bad, however.
gollark: Regexes, splitting at equals signs or some kind of state machine maybe.
gollark: I might be somewhat annoyed about someone not paying me a cut of that, except I didn't even invent the algorithm.
gollark: Besides, that isn't particularly evil.
gollark: It's actually ported from someone's Haskell implementation but several times faster, so you could just have NFTized output from that anyway.

References
  1. Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2003–2004). Massachusetts General Court.
  2. Mooney, Brian C. (October 17, 2001). "Lynch cruises to Congress in 9th district". The Boston Globe.


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