Background
William B. Franklin was born in York, Pennsylvania om February 27, 1823. He was the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin.
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March to South Pass: Lieutenant William B. Franklin's journal of the Kearny Expedition of 1845 (Engineer historical studies)
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William Buel Franklin
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William Franklin graduated at West Point, at the head of his class, in 1843, was commissioned in the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. , and served with distinction in the Mexican War, receiving the brevet of first lieutenant for his good conduct at Buena Vista, in which action he was on the staff of General Taylor.
Career
Through the influence of the Earl of Bute, William Franklin was appointed governor of New Jersey in 1763.
Despite the reservations of the proprietor of Pennsylvania, Franklin and his bride were at first popular in the colony.
After January 1776 he was kept under guard by the Provincial Congress, which ordered his arrest on June 15 and had him imprisoned in Connecticut.
He led a brigade in the first battle of Bull Run, and on the organization by McClellan of the Army of the Potomac he received a divisional command.
He commanded first a division and then the VI.
. His part in the last battle led to charges of disobedience and negligence being preferred against him by the commanding general, General A. E. Burnside, on which the congressional committee on the conduct of the war reported unfavourably to Franklin, largely, it seems, because Burnside's orders to Franklin were not put in evidence.
Burnside had issued on the 23rd of January 1863 an order relieving Franklin from duty, xi.
In 1865 he was brevetted major-general in the regular army, and in 1866 he was retired.
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In 1852, William Franklin married Anna L. Clarke. The Franklins had no children.
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Democratic party