 Franklin is represented by Republicans Ralph K. Smith and William M. Stanley, Jr. in the Virginia Senate, Republicans Charles D. Poindexter and Kathy J. Byron in the Virginia House of Delegates, and Thomas Garrett, Jr. in the U.S. House of Representatives.About four miles outside of Callaway is the Phoebe Needles Mission School, an Episcopal mission school dating from 1907.The school and mission church were used to serve the rural and mountain children of the county who could not get to the public schools in Callaway, Virginia, Ferrum, Virginia or Rocky Mount, Virginia.