Walter Simonds Franklin was a lawyer who practiced in Pennsylvania.
Background
Franklin"s parents were Samuel Rhoades Franklin and Sarah Simonds. His father was the son of Mary Rhoades, a daughter of Samuel Rhoades, who had been a member of the First Continental Congress. His father"s brother, Walter Franklin was a prominent Pennsylvania lawyer, later state Attorney General and state judge.
Education
Walter attended Litchfield Law School in Connecticut, where he met and, in 1821, married Sarah Buel.
Career
He served as the seventh Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, from 1833 until his death in 1838. Franklin was named as Clerk for the Twenty-third United States Congress on December 2, 1833, and served for the next two congresses, dying in office of a sudden “malignant fever”. He was the third Pennsylvanian to hold the post.