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Michael Cresap Sprigg (July 1, 1791 – December 18, 1845) was a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from
Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
, brother of
James Cresap Sprigg James Cresap Sprigg (1802 – October 3, 1852) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was the brother of Michael Cresap Sprigg. He was born in Frostburg, Maryland in 1802 where he completed preparatory studies. Later, he moved to ...
. Born in Frostburg, Maryland, Sprigg completed preparatory studies. He held a number of local offices, and served as member of the
Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...
in 1821, 1823, 1837, 1840, and 1844. He served as president of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland. It replaced the Potomac Canal, wh ...
in 1841 and 1842. Sprigg was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1831. In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses). He died in Cumberland, Maryland, and is interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.


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* 1791 births 1845 deaths Members of the Maryland House of Delegates People from Frostburg, Maryland Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland 19th-century American politicians Sprigg family Burials at Rose Hill Cemetery (Cumberland, Maryland) Politicians from Cumberland, Maryland {{Maryland-politician-stub