Burleigh F. Spalding

Burleigh Folsom Spalding (December 3, 1853 – March 17, 1934) was a United States representative from North Dakota. He was born on a farm near Craftsbury, Vermont. 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.

In March 1880, he relocated to Fargo, North Dakota and commenced practice there. In 1882–1884, he was superintendent of public instruction of Cass County, North Dakota. On November 25, 1880, Burleigh F. Spalding married Alida Baker of Vermont. Burleigh F. Spalding, U.S. Representative from North Dakota, 1899 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.