Scott Franklin

Republican · FL-18 · U.S. House

Bio

Clifford Scott Franklin is an American politician and businessman who has served in the United States House of Representatives since 2021. He represented Florida's 15th congressional district from 2021 to 2023, and has represented Florida's 18th district since 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 249 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

Lakeland, FL · 863-644-8215
Lake Placid, FL · 863-644-8215
Lake Wales, FL · 863-644-8215

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2020

$28.9M

2021

$25.2M

2022

$23.4M

2023

$22.2M

2024

$23.5M

2025

$10.3M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $4.8M – $17.2M
Liabilities: $500k – $1.0M
Net worth: $3.8M – $16.7M
Since 2020: −$18.6M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 111 assets reported

OK3 Properties, LLC$1.0M – $5.0M

Fidelity Joint TBE ⇒ The Baldwin Insurance Group, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (BWIN)$500k – $1.0M

OK3 Properties, LLC Checking Account$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock (GOOG)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New Common Stock (BRK.B)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Fidelity Advisor Total Bond Fund: Class Z (FBKWX)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Home Depot, Inc. (HD)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ JP Morgan Chase & Co. Common Stock (JPM)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Lord Abbett Short Duration High Yield Fund Class I (LSYIX)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT)$100k – $250k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Walmart Inc. - Common Stock (WMT)$100k – $250k

PruLife Custom Premier Life Insurance Policy$50k – $100k

BRP Colleague, Inc. 401(k) ⇒ Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Accenture plc Class A Ordinary Shares (ACN)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Common Stock (APD)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Amgen Inc. - Common Stock (AMGN)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Automatic Data Processing, Inc. - Common Stock (ADP)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Chubb Limited Common Stock (CB)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Fidelity Mid-Cap Stock Fund (FMCSX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (SDVY)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ General Dynamics Corporation Common Stock (GD)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Illinois Tool Works Inc. Common Stock (ITW)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Johnson & Johnson Common Stock (JNJ)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Lockheed Martin Corporation Common Stock (LMT)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ McDonald's Corporation Common Stock (MCD)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Novo Nordisk A/S Common Stock (NVO)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ The Hershey Company Common Stock (HSY)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock (UNP)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Common Stock (UNH)$50k – $100k

Fidelity Traditional IRA ⇒ Visa Inc. (V)$50k – $100k

Bank of Central Florida Personal Checking Accounts$15k – $50k

Pacific Life VUL policy$15k – $50k

Fidelity Roth IRA ⇒ Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock (GOOG)$15k – $50k

Fidelity Roth IRA ⇒ Fidelity Advisor Total Bond Fund: Class Z (FBKWX)$15k – $50k

Fidelity Roth IRA ⇒ JP Morgan Chase & Co. Common Stock (JPM)$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.78

Healthcare

R+0.76

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.83

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+0.88

Defense & Veterans

R+0.79

Economy & Labor

R+0.68

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.72

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.68

Education

R+0.95

Government & Democracy

R+0.88

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Scott Franklin's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

60%

26%

16%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

12%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

Scott Franklin (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Franklinsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Franklin's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.