According to the Wisconsin Blue Book entry for the Assembly of 1863, Spaulding was a farmer from Janesville, a native of Pennsylvania, 50 years of age and a Republican.
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According to the Wisconsin Blue Book (1971), he was raised in Iron County, and attended Hurley High School, as well as Gogebic Junior College in Ironwood, finally graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1942.