
Benjamin Joseph Franklin (March 1839-19 May 1898) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MO 8) from 4 March 1875 to 4 March 1879 (succeeding Abram Comingo and preceding Samuel Locke Sawyer) and Governor of the Arizona Territory from 18 April 1896 to 22 July 1897 (succeeding Louis Cameron Hughes and preceding Myron H. McCord).
Biography[]
Benjamin Joseph Franklin was born in Maysville, Kentucky in 1839, and he became a lawyer in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1859. He served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, after which he settled in Columbia, Missouri and to Kansas City in 1868. He served as Jackson County prosecuting attorney from 1871 to 1875, in the US House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879, as the US Consul in Hankow from 1885 to 1890, and as Governor of the Arizona Territory from 1896 to 1897. He died in 1898.