Charles F. Spalding
| Charles F. Spalding | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 12, 1918 Lake Forest, Illinois |
| Died | December 29, 1999 (aged 81) Hillsborough, California |
| Cause of death | myeloma |
| Education |
The Hill School Yale University |
| Occupation | Television writer, investment banker |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Coxe Amy Ann McGinnis Sullivan Berenice Roth |
| Children | Charles F. Spalding, Jr. Gerald C. Spalding Richard C. Spalding Elizabeth S. Perry Josephine Spalding Florence C. Spalding |
| Relatives |
Patrick Cudahy (maternal grandfather) Lurline Matson Roth (mother-in-law) |
For the Scottish confectioner and engineer, see Charles Spalding.
Charles F. Spalding (a.k.a. Chuck Spalding) (1918–1999) was an American heir, political advisor, television screenwriter and investment banker. He was a political campaigner during the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, a best-selling co-author of Love At First Flight, a screenwriter for Charlie Chaplin, and later Vice President of the New York City-based investment bank Lazard.
Charles F. Spalding was born in 1918 in Lake Forest, Illinois. His maternal grandfather, Patrick Cudahy, was the founder of Cudahy Packing Company, the third largest meat-packing company in the United States. He was thus an heir to the Cudahy Packing fortune.
He was educated at The Hill School, a private boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He went on to graduate from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1941, where he was a weekly contributor to the Yale Daily News, the campus newspaper. The weekly column was called 'Ain't Necessarily So'. During the Second World War, he served in the United States Navy.
After he was introduced to John F. Kennedy by his Yale roommate, they became friends and he worked on the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy in Illinois and West Virginia. He was an usher at Kennedy's wedding. The two friends often traveled together, for example to Antigua in 1964, sometimes flying on Air Force One. Spalding also worked on Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in California.
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