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 The Hotchkiss School is a coeducational University-preparatory school#North America, preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut, United States. Hotchkiss is a member of the Eight Schools Association and Ten Schools Admissions Organization. It i ...

and

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1947, where he was a member of

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. He served three years as a pilot for the

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during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

and was discharged as a

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. He attended

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

Politics

Spaulding served as the chairman of the

Massachusetts Republican Party The Massachusetts Republican Party (MassGOP) is the Massachusetts branch of the U.S. Republican Party. In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 52, the party is governed by a state committee which consists of one man and one woma ...

from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for

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and

Massachusetts Attorney General The Massachusetts Attorney General is an elected constitutionally defined executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The officeholder is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The officeholder ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

. Spaulding was elected to

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's National Governing Board in 1973.

Law

Spaudling was a partner in the Boston law firm of Bingham Dana & Gould.

Business

Spaulding was the longtime chairman of

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Beverly, Massachusetts Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, and a suburb of Boston. The population was 42,670 at the time of the 2020 United States Census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly incl ...

. Spaulding was one of the founders of the

Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is a 132-bed rehabilitation teaching hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the official teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the ma ...

. Following his death, the hospital would be renamed the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in his honor.

Personal life

Spaulding was married to Helen Bowdoin Spaulding, an activist and philanthropist who served as the president of the

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and vice chairman of the board of trustees of

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

. He died of a heart attack in 1983 in

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. Spaulding's son, Josiah Spaulding Jr., is the president and CEO of the

Citi Performing Arts Center The Boch Center (formerly Citi Performing Arts Center and Wang Center for the Performing Arts) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. It manages the historic Wang and Shubert theatres on Tremont S ...

References

1922 births 1983 deaths Businesspeople from Massachusetts Massachusetts lawyers Massachusetts Republican Party chairs People from Beverly, Massachusetts Hotchkiss School alumni Yale University alumni Columbia Law School alumni United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American businesspeople Military personnel from Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-politician-stub