The Franklins of Arizona
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin (1839–1898), Kansas State Senator 1860, U.S. Representative from Missouri 1875–1879, U.S. Consul in Hankow, China 1885–1890; Governor of Arizona Territory 1896–1897. Father of Alfred Franklin.
- Alfred Franklin, delegate to the Arizona Constitutional Convention 1910, Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court 1912–1918. Son of Benjamin Joseph Franklin.
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—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)