sentences:  He served as mayor of Utica, New York from 1868 to 1880, and as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1860, 1872 and 1880.Spriggs was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887).He served as chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Forty-ninth Congress).