Background
Spalding, Burleigh Folsom was born on December 3, 1853 in Craftsbury, Vermont, United States. Son of Review Benjamin Pendell and Ann (Folsom) Spalding.
United States representative lawyer politician
Spalding, Burleigh Folsom was born on December 3, 1853 in Craftsbury, Vermont, United States. Son of Review Benjamin Pendell and Ann (Folsom) Spalding.
He attended the Lyndon Literary Institute in Lyndon, Vermont and was graduated from Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont in 1877. He studied law in Montpelier, Vermont and was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Fargo, North Dakota.
In 1882–1884, he was superintendent of public instruction of Cass County, North Dakota. He was the chairman of the Republican State central committee of North Dakota 1892–1894 and of the Cass County Republican committee 1896–1898. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901) and did not seek renomination in 1900.
He was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905) and was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904.
He was appointed in 1907 and elected in 1908 an associate justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court and became chief justice in 1911 and served until 1915 after which he resumed the practice of law in Fargo, North Dakota in 1915. He served as a delegate to most Republican Territorial and State conventions 1888–1933 and as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924.
He died in Fargo, North Dakota in 1934 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
Member Capitol communications of Dakota Territory, 1883-1887. Member of North Dakota Constitutional Convention, 1889. Member Joint Commission to divide property, institutions and archives of Dakota
Ty. between states of North Dakota and South Dakot, 1889.
Chairman Republican State Central Committee, 1892-1894. Member 56th and 58th Congresses (1899-1901, 1903-1905).
Member commission on Policies and Platform of Republican Party, 1920-1924. Mason, Elk. Republican campaign speaker, also speaker on constitutional and educational questions, and in opposition to socialism and communism.
Married Alida Baker, November 25, 1880. Children: Deane Baker, Frances Folsom (Mistress Ray H. Nelson), Roscoe Conkling, Burleigh Mason, Carlton Cutler.