Spaulding Burke was the US Vice President under Tom Stewart.
Background[]
Hitman: Blood Money[]
Little is known about Burke before his appearance in a newspaper article regarding his death. The only things that are known are him being married to a woman named Tabitha and having to children.
On the 17th of March, 2004 he was killed in a staged car accident when his limo swerved out of control, flipped over traffic and was hit by a southbound tractor trailer at roughly 5.40 pm. Burke's Chief of Staff, two aides and the limo driver, Carl Wagner, were killed alongside him. Wagner immigrated from Austria in 1999 and despite not having proper citizenship to either Austria or the US, made it into the Secret Service and became a trusted driver for Burke for many years.
A few months after his death, Congress voted in Daniel Morris as the new Vice President.
Obituary[]
Burke was survived by his wife, Tabitha Porter Burke, and two children, Andrew, 8, and Elizabeth, 6. Burke is pictured in his obituary and appears to be an elderly white male. With such young children, it's likely that Tabitha is much younger than him, possibly based on Fred Thompson and his wife. Burke and Thompson also look a bit alike, and are Republican.
Trivia[]
- In the IOI Interactive title Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, the same black and white photo of Vice President Spaulding Burke used in the post-mission newspaper in Hitman: Blood Money can be seen on the wall in the cell of the character Rific, in Chapter 8: Breakout, where Kane and Lynch beak out Kane's former partners in crime.
- Possibly named after Spaulding Gray.
