Franklin S. Billings

Franklin Swift Billings was an American businessman and politician from Woodstock, Vermont. He served as the 52nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1923 to 1925 and as the 60th Governor of Vermont from 1925 to 1927.

Billings was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and his parents were Franklin Noble Billings and Nancy Swift Billings. He was educated at Adams Academy in Quincy, and graduated from Milton Academy, Milton, and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in the class of 1885. On July 12, 1892 he married Bessie Hewitt Vail of New York and they had three children, Elizabeth Swift Billings, Franklin Nobel Billings, and Nancy Billings. Bessie died in 1917 and Billings then married Gertrude Freeman Curtis and they had one son, Franklin S. Billings, Jr., who was a United States Federal Judge.

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