Louis Franklin Valentine

Louis Franklin Valentine (December 15, 1877 – June 20, 1962) was an American newspaper publisher and Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 1939 till 1942.

Biography Valentine was born December 15, 1877 in Topeka, Kansas to Daniel Mulford Valentine who was also a member of the Kansas House of Representatives as well as the Kansas State Senate and justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. He started his education in local schools before going on to obtain a degree in microscopic biology in 1900 from Washburn University.

He moved to Clay Center, Kansas in 1900 and worked as the manager of his brothers newspaper, D. A. Valentine, the weekly Clay Center Times. He later owned his own newspaper the daily Clay Center Dispatch from around 1941, but left his son Harry E. Valentine to be the editor after the end of World War II. and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in the same city. He was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. He was entered into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the University of Kansas in 1969.