Franklin MacVeagh (November 22, 1837 – July 6, 1934) was an American politician, lawyer, grocer and banker.

[1] His brother, Isaac Wayne MacVeagh, became the U.S. Attorney General under Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur.

[1] MacVeagh initially worked as a wholesale grocer and lawyer and was subsequently hired by the Commercial National Bank of Chicago.

Still serving as the director of that bank in 1909 after having held that position for twenty-nine years, he was nominated to be the United States Secretary of the Treasury by President and fellow Bonesman William Howard Taft.

He also owned a large summer estate in Dublin, New Hampshire (now listed on the National Register of Historic Places) known as Knollwood.