From:  The political Register and Congressional Directory:  A Statistical Record by Benjamin Perley
Poore.
Published in 1878.  Copied by Betty White.

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Spencer, William B. was born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, Feb. 5, 1835;
received a classical education, graduating at Centenary College and in the
law department of the University of Louisiana; was admitted to the bar in
1857, and practiced at Harrisonburg, Louisiana, until 1861; entered the
Confederate army as captain of infantry, and served throughout the war;
resumed the practice of law after the war at Vidalia, Concordia Parish,
Louisiana; was elected a representative from Louisiana in the Fourty-fourth
Congress as a Democrat, receiving a majority of 1,315 votes over Frank Morey,
Republican.  The Returning Board of Louisiana, however, returned Morey as
elected; he held the seat until May 31, 1876, when the House, by resolution,
declared Spencer to have been duly elected, and he was accordingly sworn in
June 8, 1876, serving to January 8, 1877, when he resigned.