Famous People with Name Spence

Terry R. Spence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terry R. Spence: is a United States statesman and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly as Speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives. He was defeated in the 20

John Selby Spence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Selby Spence: was an American politician. 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,

Brent Spence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brent Spence: was a native of Newport, Kentucky, was a long time Democratic Congressman, attorney, and banker from Northern Kentucky. He was very active in local and state politics, serving first in the Kentucky Senate, 1904-1908, then as city solicitor of Newport, 191

Paul-Henri Spence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul-Henri Spence: was a Quebec businessman and politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1952 by-election in Roberval's federal constituency to become only the third Progressive Conservative MP from Quebec to sit in the 21st Canadian Parliament. He only sat in Parliament for a year before he lost his seat in the 1953 general election with Liberal Georges Villeneuve defeating him by just over 200 votes. Spence moved to provincial politics and was elected to the Quebec legislature in the 1956 provincial election as the Union Nationale deputy for provincial Roberval district. He sat in the legislature for two years before resigning his seat in the 25th Legislative Assembly of Quebec on August 19, 1958.

Franklin Harford Spence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Franklin Harford Spence: was an Ontario pharmacist and political figure. He represented Fort William in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1934 and from 1937 to 1943 as a Conservative member. He defeated UFO-Labor cabinet minister Harry (Henry) Mills in the 1923 election, was re-elected in December 1926 and again in October 1929, chiefly because of the popularity of Ontario premier Howard Ferguson - "A vote for Spence is a vote for Ferguson," he advertised. He played a subordinate role to other Conservative party heavyweights from Northern Ontario, Donald McDonald Hogarth and Francis Henry Keefer. He was defeated by Liberal Joseph Edmund Crawford in the June 1934 election, but won the seat again in October 1937 when the Liberal vote split between the official candidate Harry Murphy and the Independent Liberal Crawford.