Spalding, Rufus Paine

Life Span
to
Full name
Rufus Paine Spalding
Place of Birth
West Tisbury, MA
Burial Place
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
9
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
7
Family
Rufus Spalding (father), Lydia Paine Spalding (mother), Lucretia A. Swift (first wife), Nacy Pierson (second wife) 
Education
Yale
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Educator
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Free Soil
Republican
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Government
US House of Representatives
State legislature
State supreme court
Date Event
In Cleveland, Ohio, thousands hear speeches at a mass meeting of the National Union League
In state elections, Ohio Republicans easily retain control of the legislature and congressional delegation.
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Republican Party
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
Fortieth Congress of the United States
Reconstruction
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