YARMOUTH – John Spencer Jones was an optimistic man. He was born on Feb. 8, 1936, and grew up on a farm near Walla Walla, Wash., where he learned to set big goals and achieve them.

A jury in state Supreme Court Tuesday convicted John Spencer, 42, of 22 criminal counts. The crimes largely stemmed from Spencer's prostitution operation he ran out of a city home.

R.I.P. John Spencerquote:LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- The death on Friday of actor John Spencer, a cornerstone of the ensemble on "The West Wing" since its 1999 debut, is sure ...

LOS ANGELES — John Spencer, 58, who played a tough and dedicated politico on “The West Wing” who survived a serious illness to run for vice president, died of a heart attack Friday.

John Spencer Jr. – now 73 – was broke into tears after being given a Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross at the University of North Carolina ...

Writers for NBC's 'The West Wing' will have to reappraise the outcome of the TV drama's on-going presidential campaign after the death of actor John Spencer, who played a vice presidential candidate.

CNN’s Jim Sciutto grilled John Spencer, the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, as to why his assessment of the civilian death toll in Israeli military ...

John Spencer won two MLS Cups as an assistant coach with the Houston Dynamo, and leveraged that success into his first head coaching job with the Portland Timbers ahead of their 2011 debut.

John Spencer is a retired U.S. Army major and expert on urban warfare. He currently serves as the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Madison Policy Forum.

The actor died on Dec. 16, 2005, at age 58. We replay an interview from April 2000. Spencer is best known for his character Leo McGarry, the president's chief of staff, on the popular NBC series ...