Franklin Freeman
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Franklin Freeman is a lawyer and public official in North Carolina, who is currently serving as senior aide for Governmental Affairs to Governor Mike Easley.
Freeman, a native of Surry County, North Carolina, has been a prosecutor and was also a close advisor to former state Governor Jim Hunt. He served as Secretary of the state Department of Correction during Hunt's 1993-1997 term. Hunt later appointed Freeman to fill a vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court, but Freeman was defeated in a bid to be elected to a full term on the Court in 2000.