A former U.S. House member who represented part of upstate South Carolina for almost 30 years has died.
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John Spratt was first elected to Congress in 1982 and eventually became chairman of the House Budget Committee and the second-highest-ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
Spratt’s 5th Congressional District had been in Democratic hands for more than a century until Republican Mick Mulvaney defeated Spratt in 2010.
His family says Spratt died over the weekend due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 82.