18 Facts About Cornell Franklin

Cornell Sidney Franklin was an American lawyer, judge and politician who served as the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1937 to 1940.

Cornell Franklin was the son of Cornell Samuel and Mary Wycoff Franklin.

Cornell Franklin was educated at the Franklin Academy from which he graduated in 1909 and the University of Mississippi where he obtained a BA in 1913 and an LLB in 1914.

Cornell Franklin then served as an assistant Attorney General of Hawaii from 1917 to 1918.

Cornell Franklin arrived in Shanghai on December 31,1921, and commenced practice of law before the United States Court for China.

Cornell Franklin won in Shanghai but lost on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

In 1933, Cornell Franklin was elected a member of Shanghai Municipal Council.

Cornell Franklin was interned by the Japanese during World War II; early in the morning of November 5,1942, he was arrested by officers of the Kempeitai and held in the Haiphong Road Camp in Shanghai.

Cornell Franklin was repatriated from Shanghai in September, 1943 on the Japanese ship Teia Maru as part of the 1943 prisoner exchange.

Cornell Franklin returned to America on board the MS Gripsholm with other Americans after transferring in a Goa, India, then a Portuguese colony and a neutral port.

Cornell Franklin returned to Shanghai after the war and resumed practice as a lawyer in partnership with Robert T Bryant, the former Shanghai Municipal Advocate.

Cornell Franklin stayed on after the Chinese Communist Revolution and was granted an exit visa in 1951.

Cornell Franklin married Estelle Oldham in April, 1918, and they had two children, Victoria and Malcom.

Cornell Franklin remarried in 1929 to the American writer, and later Nobel Prize winner, William Faulkner.

Franklin remarried in 1929 to Dallas Chesterman Lee in Shanghai with whom he had two sons, Cornell Swinton who was born on 16 March 1931 and died as an infant on 31 March 1931 and Cornell Jr.

Cornell Franklin was a First Lieutenant of the US Army Infantry from 1918 to 1919 during World War I in Hawaii.

Cornell Franklin was one of the three organisers of the American Troop of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps and served as a First Lieutenant of the Corps.

Cornell Franklin was buried in the Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi.