Governor of New Hampshire politician
Rolland Harty Spaulding was the third son of Jonas Spaulding and Emeline Cummings. He was born in 1873 in Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, where his father and uncle had a fiberboard mill. His father founded a mill at Rochester, New Hampshire and moved his family there.
The young Spaulding was educated at Phillips Academy, (class of 1893).
He was elected Governor of New Hampshire in 1914, where he served one term. Their family-owned company manufactured fiberboard, later adding a type of resin laminate named Spauldite® (to compete with Bakelite) and fiberglass tubing to their product lines. Spaulding became active in Republican Party state politics.
He was elected Governor in 1914, but declined to run for a second term.
He died the day before his 69th birthday, in Rochester, New Hampshire.
