Thomas Franklin West (November 23, 1874 – February 23, 1931) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Florida.

The proposition, designated as House Joint Resolution 222, easily passed both chambers of the Florida Legislature, despite the protest of the conservative minority.

West instead endorsed the Prohibition candidate, pastor Sidney Johnson Catts, who had initially run for the Democratic nomination, losing to Knott in the primary.

[8] Catts defeated Knott by over 9,000 votes, becoming one of two elected Prohibition candidates, alongside Charles Hiram Randall, a U.S. Representative from California.

As thanks for his endorsement, Catts appointed West to the Florida Supreme Court on September 1, 1917, after the resignation of Justice Thomas M.

[13] West worked as a judge until the day of his death, dying from influenza in Pensacola, Florida, on February 23, 1931.