Franklin Swift Billings Jr., BEM (June 5, 1922 – March 9, 2014) was an American politician and judge from the state of Vermont.

[2][3][4] Billings completed the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Harvard and received his commission as a second lieutenant.

He was slated for training at Fort Sill when an Army physical uncovered a heart condition that disqualified him from military service.

He then moved to Schenectady to work on a General Electric radar project for the United States Navy.

In the House Billings was one of the "Young Turks," a group of relatively junior members who pursued progressive policies regardless of party affiliation.

The effort to end conservative Republican dominance of Vermont had gone on since the early 1900s with limited success.

The general store remains in the family and is operated by their two sons, Frank and Jireh Billings.