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词条 Walter Franklin (judge)
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  1. Biography and career

  2. References

  3. External links

  4. Further reading

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|death_date = February 7, 1836 (aged 62)
|death_place = Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Walter Franklin (May 17, 1773 – February 7, 1836) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, state Attorney General, and state judge.

Biography and career

Franklin was born in New York, in 1773, the son of Thomas Franklin, a prosperous merchant.[1] The family moved to Philadelphia in 1775, and during the War, Thomas was appointed commissary of prisoners.

Franklin was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia county in 1792, age 19.

He married Anne Emlen in 1802. Five of their children survived to adulthood.

He was appointed state Attorney General in 1809, and served until 1810, when Judge John Joseph Henry retired as president judge of the Second Judicial District, then consisting of York, Lancaster and Dauphin counties, and Franklin was appointed to take his place. (Since 1833, the District consisting of just Lancaster county.)

Franklin was impeached twice by the state House of Representatives, in 1818 and in 1825, for alleged judicial misconduct, but the Senate acquitted him both times.

Two of his sons, and three of his grandsons, would become members of the Lancaster bar. Of the sons, Thomas E. Franklin would eventually serve two terms as state Attorney General.

Franklin died in office.

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=S[amuel] R[hoads] Franklin|title=Memories of a Rear-Admiral|year=1898|publisher=Harper & Brothers|url=https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofrearad00fran#page/1/mode/2up|pages=1–9}} Thomas's brothers were also successful, especially his brother also named Walter. This Walter's Manhattan house (after his decease) would be George Washington's Presidential Mansion for the first year of his presidency. Two of Walter's daughters married the brothers DeWitt and George Clinton.

External links

  • information about Franklin and family

Further reading

  • {{cite book

|author=Frank Marshall Eastman
|title=Courts and lawyers of Pennsylvania: a history, 1623-1923
|volume=Volume 3
|publisher=American Historical Society
|year=1922
|pages=591–6
|url=https://books.google.com/?id=TPwLAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA592&dq=walter%20franklin&pg=PA592#v=onepage&q=walter%20franklin&f=false
}}
  • {{cite book

|author=Franklin Ellis, Samuel Evans
|title=History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men
|publisher=Everts & Peck
|year=1883
|pages=234–6
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsQxAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22walter%20franklin%22&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q=%22walter%20franklin%22&f=false
}}{{s-start}}{{s-legal}}{{succession box
|title= Pennsylvania Attorney General
|before= Mahlon Dickerson
|after= Joseph Reed
|years= 1809–1810}}{{s-end}}{{Pennsylvania Attorneys General}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Franklin, Walter}}

5 : 1773 births|1836 deaths|Pennsylvania Attorneys General|Pennsylvania state court judges|Lawyers from Philadelphia

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