Charles Spalding

Background

Charles F. Spalding was born in 1918 in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Career

Foreign the Scottish confectioner and engineer, see Charles He was a political campaigner during the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, a best-selling co-author of Love At First Flight, a screenwriter for Charlie Chaplin, and later Vice President of the New York City-based investment bank Lazard. He was thus an heir to the Cudahy Packing fortune. He was educated at The Hill School, a private boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

He went on to graduate from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1941, where he was a weekly contributor to the Yale Daily News, the campus newspaper.

The weekly column was called "Ain"t Necessarily So". During the Second World War, he served in the United States Navy.

He was an usher at Kennedy"s wedding. Spalding also worked on Robert F. Kennedy"s presidential campaign in California.

lieutenant became a best-seller.

After the rights were purchased by actor Gary Cooper, Spalding moved to Los Angeles, California to work as a scriptwriter for Charlie Chaplin. He then wrote for television, working for J. Walter Thompson. In 1952, he was a production associate of Of Three I See, a Broadway musical.

He founded De Sainte Phalle Spalding, an investment banking firm.

Later, he served as Vice President of Lazard in New York City. He retired in the 1980s.

Personal life He later remarried to heiress and philanthropist Berenice Roth They resided in Hillsborough, San Mateo County, California. Death He died of myeloma in 1999 in Hillsborough, California.

Achievements

• His maternal grandfather, Patrick Cudahy, was the founder of Cudahy Packing Company, the third largest meat-packing company in the United States. She was the granddaughter of William Matson, the founder of the shipping corporation Matson, Incorporated., and had grown up at Filoli, an estate in Woodside, California.

Membership

Spalding was a member of the Pacific-Union Club, a gentlemen"s club in San Francisco.

Connections

friends:

Force One

Friend:

Otis Carney