[1][2][3] Appointed as a delegate to the 1860 political convention at which Andrew Gregg Curtin was nominated to be his party's candidate for governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,[4] Bound was also a delegate to the post-war Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in 1868.

[16] After purchasing the Miltonian newspaper in 1867, Franklin Bound served as that publication's editor for two years.

[17][18] Elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth sessions of the United States Congress, Bound was also chosen to serve as a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention,[19] but was not a candidate for renomination in 1888, opting instead to resume his legal career, which he continued until his retirement at the turn of the century.

[20][21] A longtime member of the Free and Accepted Masons who had served as master of the Milton Lodge in 1855, Bound remained active with the F. & A.M. for many years.

[22] Ailing for roughly a decade during the opening years of the 20th century, Bound died[23] at his home in Milton on the morning of August 8, 1910.