Benjamin B. Spaulding was an American physician from Arcade (now Brooklyn), Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term as a Free Soil member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Marquette and Waushara counties, which included the area which is now Green Lake County.
[1] Spaulding came to Wisconsin in 1844 from Massachusetts and was the first doctor in the Ripon area.
[2] Spaulding was elected in 1849 as a member of the Free Soil Party, organized the year before, to serve in the third session of the Assembly for the district including Marquette County and the newly created Waushara County, succeeding Democrat Satterlee Clark, Jr.
It is reported that when the American Civil War broke out, Spaulding's son enlisted in the United States Army; and that the family afterwards moved to Brooklyn, Connecticut.
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