Career
Francis was originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, but relocated to Minnesota at an early age. He enrolled at William Mitchell College of Law (then the Street Paul College of Law) in 1901 and earned his degree in 1904. Afterward, he served in the legal department of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Francis opened his own law firm prior to World War I in Saint Paul.
In 1920, he was president elector at the Republican State Convention. In 1927, he was appointed United States Minister to Liberia by President Calvin Coolidge.
He died two years later of yellow fever in Monrovia.
