Editing Franklin County, North Carolina (section)

==Law and government==
Franklin County is governed by an appointed [[county executive|county manager]] and a seven-member [[county commission|Board of Commissioners]] who are elected in staggered four-year terms. Five are chosen by district and the other two at-large.<ref name="COMMISSIONERS">[http://www.franklincountync.us/commissioners Franklin County, North Carolina (Commissioners)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118030803/http://www.franklincountync.us/commissioners |date=November 18, 2016 }}, Retrieved November 3, 2015.</ref>  Additional county officials who are elected include [[Sheriff]], [[Register of Deeds]], [[Board of Education]] and [[court clerk|Clerk of Superior Court]].<ref name="SERVICES">[http://www.franklincountync.us/services Franklin County, North Carolina (Services)], Retrieved November 3, 2015.</ref>

Franklin County is patrolled by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office located in Louisburg. The current sheriff is Kevin White, who was elected in 2022.<ref name="FCSO">{{Cite web |title=Franklin County Sheriff's Office |url=https://www.fcsonc.org/ |access-date=November 3, 2015 |website=www.fcsonc.org |language=en}}</ref> [[Bunn, North Carolina|Bunn]], [[Franklinton, North Carolina|Franklinton]], Louisburg and [[Youngsville, North Carolina|Youngsville]] have their own municipal police departments, regulated by the respective town governments. The community of [[Lake Royale, North Carolina|Lake Royale]] near Bunn also has its own police department.<ref name="LRPD">[http://www.lakeroyalepolice.org/ Lake Royale Police Department], Retrieved November 3, 2015.</ref> Franklin County also is covered by Troop C, District IV of the [[North Carolina Highway Patrol]], located in [[Henderson, North Carolina]].<ref name="NCDPS">[https://www.ncdps.gov/Index2.cfm?a=000003,000014,001841,000745,000749 North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Troop C - Raleigh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125233424/https://www.ncdps.gov/Index2.cfm?a=000003,000014,001841,000745,000749 |date=November 25, 2015 }}, Retrieved November 4, 2015.</ref>

Franklin County is a member of the [[Councils of governments in North Carolina|Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments]].<ref name="KTRCOC">[http://www.kerrtarcog.org/ Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments], Retrieved November 4, 2015.</ref>

* '''Interim County Manager:''' Ryan Preble
* '''County Assistant Managers:''' Vacant 
* '''Commissioner (district 1):''' Logan Davis
* '''Commissioner (district 2):''' Roxanne Bragg
* '''Commissioner (district 3):''' James Mark Speed
* '''Commissioner (district 4):''' David Bunn
* '''Commissioner (district 5):''' Michael Schriver
* '''Commissioner (at-large):''' Harry L. Foy Jr.
* '''Commissioner (at-large):''' Stuart May
* '''Clerk to the Board:''' Kristen G. King
* '''Sheriff:''' Kevin White
* '''Clerk of Superior Court:''' Shelley Dickerson 
* '''Register of Deeds:''' Brandi Brinson
* '''Finance Director:''' Jamie Holtzman
* '''Public Utilities Director:''' Chris Doherty
* '''Emergency Management Director:''' Nicholas Thorpe
* '''Public Information Officer:''' James Hicks

===Politics===
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Franklin County, from 1912 until 1964, was a typical [[Solid South]] entity, with [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential candidates nearly always receiving 80 percent or more of the popular vote. [[George Wallace]] garnered the majority of the vote in 1968 as a third-party candidate. Beginning in 1972, the county swung in the opposite direction, with the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate earning the majority of the vote in most elections since.