Josiah Spaulding

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|12|21}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|3|27|1922|12|12}}

| death_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico

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| office = Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party

| term_start = 1967

| term_end = 1969

| predecessor = John F. Parker

| successor = Richard Treadway

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Josiah Augustus "Si" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician.

Education and military service

Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School.{{cite news | title=Helen H. Bowdoin Becomes Engaged | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/03/12/86768357.pdf|work=New York Times | date=12 Mar 1949 | access-date=May 1, 2011 | pages=15}}

Politics

Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for United States Senator in 1970 and Massachusetts Attorney General in 1974.{{cite news |title=Josiah Spaulding dies; was active in politics |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9TNSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IjYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4150,4986079 |agency=Associated Press |date=March 27, 1983 |access-date=2010-11-21 }} Spaulding was elected to Common Cause's National Governing Board in 1973.

Law

Spaudling was a partner in the Boston law firm of Bingham Dana & Gould.{{cite news |title=Frances Caroline Chick Wed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/08/style/frances-caroline-chick-wed.html?pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |date=August 8, 1982 |access-date=2010-11-21 }}

Business

Spaulding was the longtime chairman of Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Spaulding was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital. Following his death, the hospital would be renamed the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in his honor. {{Cite press release |last=Hospital |first=Spaulding Rehabilitation |title=Spaulding Celebrates 40 Years of Remarkable Recoveries |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spaulding-celebrates-40-years-of-remarkable-recoveries-103153489.html |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}}

Personal life

Spaulding was married to Helen Bowdoin Spaulding, an activist and philanthropist who served as the president of the New England Aquarium and vice chairman of the board of trustees of Georgetown University.

He died of a heart attack in 1983 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Spaulding's son, Josiah Spaulding Jr., is the president and CEO of the Citi Performing Arts Center.{{cite news |author=Geoff Edgers |title=Mixed martial arts at the Wang Theatre? |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2010/02/ |work=Boston Globe |date=February 27, 2010 |access-date=November 21, 2010}}