Death and Succession
Spence died in Washington, D.C., on August 16, 2001, at the age of seventy-three from complications following brain surgery. He had been admitted to St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, three weeks earlier for testing and treatment for nerve pain in his face. In 1988, he had received a double lung transplant in the same facility.
Upon Spence's death, his former aide, Republican State Senator Joe Wilson, won the special election for the vacant seat.
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