Franklin Spencer Spalding (1865–1914) was an Episcopal Bishop of Utah from 1905 to 1914 who advocated Christian socialism as the true teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ.

Along with fighting against the gap between the wealthy and the worker, Spalding was a proponent of peace, health and education reform, and prohibition.

[6] While Spalding criticized what he saw as failings of the church in relation to the working class, he was sensitive to any division that his opinions may have caused among his brethren.

Therefore the Church must destroy a system of society which inevitably creates and perpetuates unequal and unfair conditions of life.

[9] On September 25, 1914, he was struck and killed by an automobile while walking to a mailbox near his Salt Lake City home.