Franklin Brockson

Franklin Brockson ( born August 6, 1865 in Blackbird, New Castle County, Delaware, † March 16, 1942 in Clayton, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Franklin Brockson attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1890, the Wilmington Conference Academy in Dover. He then worked in the trade and worked occasionally as a teacher in Port Penn and Marshallton. After studying law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington (Virginia ) and its made ​​in 1896 admitted to the bar he began in Wilmington to work in his new profession.

Brockson was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1908 and 1910 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Delaware. In 1912 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He benefited from a split in the opposition Republican Party. On 4 March 1913 he took over the hitherto exercised by William H. Heald mandate in Congress. Because it did in 1914 is not confirmed, he was able to complete only one legislative period to March 3, 1915. After the end of his time in Congress Brockson again worked as a lawyer in Wilmington. He died in 1942 in Clayton and was buried in Smyrna.