Samuel Franklin Wilson (1845-1923) was an American Confederate veteran, politician and judge.

Samuel Franklin Wilson was born on April 18, 1845, in Sumner County, Tennessee.

[2] During paternal great-great-uncle, Zachary Wilson, was a signatory of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.

[2] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served under Colonel William B. Bate and General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Confederate States Army.

[2] He was elected by the "low taxers" to represent Tennessee at the 1880 Democratic National Convention, but he lost to Alvin Hawkins.