Burleigh F. Spalding

Burleigh Folsom Spalding ( born December 3, 1853 in Craftsbury, Orleans County, Vermont, † March 17, 1934 in Fargo, North Dakota ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1901 he represented the first and 1903-1905 the second electoral district of the State of North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and rise in North Dakota

Spalding Burleigh visited the Lyndon Literary Institute in Vermont and later studied until 1877 at the Norwich University in Northfield. After a subsequent law school in Montpelier, he was admitted in 1880 as a lawyer. Then he started in Fargo in the Dakota Territory to work in his new profession.

Spalding was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1882 and 1884 he served as School Board ( Superintendent of Public Instructions ) in Cass County operates. In 1883 he was a member of the Commission, which planned the transfer of the capital of the territory from Yankton to Bismarck and was preparing to build the new capital. In 1889, Spalding was a member of the Constituent Assembly of North Dakota. Between 1892 and 1894 he was chairman of his party in North Dakota and from 1896 to 1898, he led the Republicans in Cass County.

Spalding in the U.S. Congress

In the congressional elections of 1898 Burleigh Spalding was elected as a candidate of his party in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he met on March 4, 1899 the successor of Martin N. Johnson. Spalding exercised this mandate from up to 3 March, 1901. In the elections of 1900, he had no longer a candidate. In the congressional elections of 1902, but he ran for the seat of the newly created second constituency of North Dakota. This he represented between 4 March 1903, March 3, 1905 Congress. In 1904, he was not nominated by his party. Hence his seat went in March 1905 Asle Gronna.

Further CV

In 1907, Burleigh was Spalding Supreme Court of North Dakota. Between 1911 and 1915 he was the Chief Judge as Chief Justice. He then worked as a lawyer. Spalding, who attended 1888-1933, almost all local party conventions of the Republicans in North Dakota, was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924, was nominated to the incumbent Calvin Coolidge again as a presidential candidate. Burleigh Spalding died in March 1934.