Editing Franklin County, Virginia (section)

==Government==
===Board of supervisors===
* Blackwater District: Marshall Jamison
* Blue Ridge District: Timothy Tatum
* Boone District: R.A. "Ronnie" Thompson
* Gills Creek District: Lorie Smith
* Rocky Mount District: Mike Carter
* Snow Creek District: Nicholas "Nick" Mitchell
* Union Hall District: Dan Quinn

===Constitutional officers===
* Clerk of the Circuit Court: Teresa J. Brown (I)
* Commissioner of the Revenue: Margaret Stone Torrence (I)
* Commonwealth's Attorney: Cooper Brown
* Sheriff: W.Q. "Bill" Overton Jr. (I)
* Treasurer: Susan J. Wray

Franklin is represented by Republicans [[David Suetterlein]] and [[Bill Stanley (politician)|Bill Stanley]] in the Virginia Senate, Republicans [[Wren Williams]] and [[Kathy Byron]] in the Virginia House of Delegates, and [[Morgan Griffith]] in the U.S. House of Representatives.

===Education===
Franklin County Public Schools operates public schools serving the county. The school system includes 12 elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.

Middle School - [[Benjamin Franklin Middle School, VA|Benjamin Franklin Middle School(BFMS), VA]]

High School - [[Franklin County High School (Rocky Mount, Virginia)|Franklin County High School(FCHS), VA]]

About four miles outside of [[Callaway, Virginia|Callaway]] is the [[Phoebe Needles Mission School]], an Episcopal mission school dating from 1907. The school and mission church were used to serve the rural and mountain children of the county who could not get to the public schools in Callaway, Ferrum, or Rocky Mount. The school has now become a church parish, Center for Lifelong Learning and summer camp operated by the [[Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia]].

[[Ferrum College]] was established in 1913. Ferrum College offers bachelor's degrees in twenty-eight major degree programs. The college continues to operate under the auspices of the Virginia Annual Conference of the [[United Methodist Church]] and the United Methodist Women of the Virginia Annual Conference.

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{{PresRow|1984|Republican|7,684|4,903|175|Virginia}}
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{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,532|6,439|228|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,674|2,273|163|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|3,036|2,025|3,247|Virginia}}
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{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|2,080|2,924|12|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|2,125|2,142|87|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,976|2,012|38|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,100|1,343|370|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,206|2,002|16|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|925|2,037|6|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|975|2,285|12|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|812|2,245|20|Virginia}}
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{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|1,381|1,765|5|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,094|1,481|7|Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|415|1,238|609|Virginia}}