State of Franklin
| Free Republic of Franklin (Frankland) | |||||
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Provisional Jonesborough, August 1784 – December 1785 |
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| Government | Republic / Organized, extralegal territory | ||||
| "Governor" (President) | |||||
| • | December 1784 – December 1788 | President/Governor Col. John Sevier | |||
| Speaker of the Senate | |||||
| • | December 1784 – December 1788 | Landon Carter | |||
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Speaker of the House August 1784 – June 1785 |
William Cage | |||
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Speaker of the House June 1785 – December 1788 |
Col. Joseph Hardin | |||
| Legislature | Congress of Greeneville | ||||
| • | Upper house | Senate | |||
| • | Lower House | House of Representatives | |||
| Historical era | post American Revolution | ||||
| • | North Carolina cedes the Washington District to Federal Government | April 1784 | |||
| • | Secedes from North Carolina and blocks Federal Government claims; Franklin proclaimed | August 23, 1784 | |||
| • | Petition for Frankland statehood sent to Congress | May 16, 1785 | |||
| • | Provisional name changed to "Franklin" | December 24, 1785 | |||
| • | Disbanded; and re-acquired by North Carolina | March–September 1788 1788 | |||
| • | Area is designated part of the Southwest Territory | 1790 | |||
| Political subdivisions | Counties | ||||
| Today part of | Tennessee, United States | ||||
Jonesborough, August 1784 – December 1785
Permanent
Greeneville, December 1785–88
36°10′N 82°49′W / 36.167°N 82.817°WCoordinates: 36°10′N 82°49′W / 36.167°N 82.817°W
The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today eastern Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the fourteenth state of the new United States.
Franklin's first capital was Jonesborough. After the summer of 1785, the government of Franklin (which was by then based in Greeneville), ruled as a "parallel government" running alongside (but not harmoniously with) a re-established North Carolina bureaucracy. Franklin was never admitted into the union. The extra-legal state existed for only about four and a half years, ostensibly as a republic, after which North Carolina re-assumed full control of the area.
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