Meshack Franklin
American politician
title: "Meshack Franklin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1772-births", "1839-deaths", "people-from-surry-county,-north-carolina", "members-of-the-north-carolina-house-of-representatives", "north-carolina-state-senators", "democratic-republican-party-united-states-representatives-from-north-carolina", "19th-century-united-states-representatives", "19th-century-members-of-the-north-carolina-general-assembly"] description: "American politician" topic_path: "people/1770s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshack_Franklin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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Meshack Franklin (1772 – December 18, 1839) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Surry County, North Carolina, in 1772; Brother of Jesse Franklin. member of the State house of commons in 1800 and 1801; served in the State senate in 1828, 1829, and 1838; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Tenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807 – March 3, 1815); died in Surry County, N.C., December 18, 1839. Franklin's house, built by his father-in-law Gideon Edwards in 1799, is currently owned and maintained by the Surry County Historical Society as the Edwards-Franklin House.
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