Trent Franks

Serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona’s 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017, Trent Franks is a former American politician and businessman. Franks began his political career in 1984 when he won election to the Arizona House of Representatives. He served in that position from 1985 to 1987.

Franks was first elected to the House in 2002. He formerly represented Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District but was redistricted in 2012. Franks won re-election in 2016.

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Biography and Early Life

Born in Uravan, Colorado, which is now a ghost town, Trent Franks is the son of Juanita and Edward Taylor Franks. He was born with a cleft lip and palate. After Frank’s parents got separated, he took care of his younger siblings.

Franks bought a drilling rig after finishing high school and moved to Texas to drill wells with his best friend and his younger brother. He moved to Arizona in 1981, where he continued to drill wells.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Trent Franks in 2021 and what is his height and weight? Well, Trent Franks’s age is 64 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 19 June 1957. Though, he is 5′ 10″ in feet and inches and 178 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 187 lbs in Pound and 85kg in Kilograms.

Education

Franks graduated from Briggsdale High School in Colorado in 1976. In 1987, he completed a course of study at the non-accredited Utah’s National Centre for Constitutional Studies, formerly known as the Freemen Institute. From 1989 to 1990, he attended the Arizona campus of Ottawa University, located in Kansas.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Franks and his wife, Josephine, have been married since 1980. They are members of the North Phoenix Baptist Church. Franks’ wife, Josephine, is an immigrant. Franks and Josephine, his wife of almost 40 years, have twin children who were born with the help of a surrogate. Franks has a son named Joshua Lane Franks and a daughter named Emily Grace Franks.

Is Trent Franks Gay?

Trent Franks is straight, and has been married to his wife Josephine for over 40 years.

Professional Career

Franks’ political career took off in 1984 by running in a severely Democratic district for a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives. He ran against serving Democrat Glenn Davis.

Franks campaigned on a conservative “Reagan Republican” platform where he emphasized stronger laws on child protection as well as protecting unborn children. He scarcely won the election by 155 votes despite that year’s massive national Republican wave.

In the state legislature, Franks served as Vice-Chairman of the Commerce Committee. He also served as Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Child Protection and Family Preservation.

In 1992, when Franks was chairman of Arizonans for Common Sense, one of the organization’s efforts was a constitutional amendment on the November 1992 ballot to “protect most preborn children in Arizona from abortion on demand”. The initiative lost, getting about 35 percent of the votes cast.

In 1997, Trent Franks, along with his brother, Lane Franks, founded Liberty Petroleum Corporation, a petroleum exploration company. That year, Franks also served as a consultant and surrogate speaker for conservative activist Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaign.

Franks was forced to resign on December 8, 2017, less than a year into his eighth term, after two of his former aides accused him of sexually harassing them by pushing them to serve as surrogate mothers for his wife.

Franks resigned from Congress after confirming to Speaker Paul Ryan that a complaint the Speaker had received from one of Franks’ former staffers was true.

Awards

Trent Franks has won many awards, some of which are:

• Friend of Education Award, Education Freedom Coalition;
• Taxpayer Hero, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste;
• Presidential Citation, President of the Philippines;
• Champion of Property Rights, League of Private Property Voters;
• Guardian of Seniors’ Rights Award, 60 Plus Association.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Trent Franks in 2021

As of 2021, Trent Franks has an estimated net worth of more than $30 million. He has made this huge fortune through his successful career as a politician.

In 2009, Franks introduced a bill to criminalize abortions based on the sex or race of a child. In September 2009, Franks generated controversy when he spoke at a “How to Take Back America” conference and called then-president Barack Obama “an enemy of humanity”.

Trent Franks, Republican of Arizona, is best known as one of the most socially conservative members of the House. He is one of the most influential personalities of the Republican Party.