About Franklin D. Dancy
Franklin D. Dancy was a politician.
Franklin D. Dancy (1840 – October 16, 1907) was a Reconstruction era blacksmith, mayor and politician who served in the North Carolina Senate.
Biography Dancy was born enslaved and was owned by an Edgecombe County planter.
He served as a member of the Tarboro Board of Commissioners for two years during the Reconstruction era and then two years as a county commissioner for Edgecombe County. and was elected as the mayor of Tarboro in 1882, being the first black mayor of that town.
Dancy died in Tarboro on October 16, 1907.
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