Johnathan Franklin Walsingham

*Businessman, Abolitionist*

**Johnathan Franklin Walsingham** (January 23, 1840 - June 23, 1936) was a Chawosaurian Jew who was a supporter for the abolitionist movement and racial equality for former slaves in a time when citizenship for former slaves was not a popular idea (north and south), then eventually the founder and CEO of The Kingdom of Walsingham Seafood. A supporter for the new U.S. Republican Party led by President Abraham Lincoln, and then a supporter for the progressive movement. Walsingham was also a supporter for Chawosauria's progressive Republican Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, but Walsingham clashed with Webster over the fact that Walsingham himself was Jewish.

Johnathan Franklin Walsingham was born on January 24, 1840, in Belfast, Maine, to Jedediah Azariah Walsingham and Jeanette Middleton Walsingham. Born and raised into a Jewish family, Walsingham lived the 19th century life of American Jews in the United States. Walsingham was raised into the Reform Jewish faith, and entered the political sphere at an early life, especially when the issue of slavery becomes a hot issue in the United States. In 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled with *Dred Scott v. Sandford* that black people were "property" instead of human beings, and that would stimulate the possibility of civil war. Walsingham becomes a strong opponent to slavery and a supporter for civil rights for black people, but civil rights for black people was not popular for every abolitionist because ironically, slavery was opposed for racist reasons, the fatigue over the presence of black people in America. Unable to vote in the 1860 U.S. elections, Walsingham wanted an abolitionist president who is dedicated to equality, not an abolitionist who is a political calculator, and Abraham Lincoln started out as a politically calculating abolitionist, promising not to allow slavery to expand into the Western United States, while not toying with slavery in the south, that made Walsingham was disappointed in Lincoln, but supported his execution of the subsequent American Civil War against the Confederacy who broke off from the U.S. mostly due to paranoia that though Lincoln said he'll won't take away the slaves of plantation owners in the antebellum south, Lincoln could still abolish slavery everywhere anyway.

Post-civil war life was good for Walsingham, he married Joan Lynn Docker in 1858 (before the civil war), and had two sons: Johnathan Franklin Walsingham II and Jack Docker Walsingham. Walsingham had a family, a wife and two sons, Walsingham dodged the civil war draft with his wall street connected father's intervention, and became a wealthy man himself with his new business, *Atlantic Kingdom of Walsingham Seafood*. Walsingham becomes a corrupt businessman and suffered a loss of his moral compass, he underpaid his employees, he turned against racial equality out of fear of black employment, and then his fall from grace was when he becomes more richer and less supportive of his family, including his wife Joan.

In 1901, the Chawosaurian public turned on Walsingham when it turned out that he was Jewish, his business empire collapsed in 1903 due to lack of popular interest in eating at a restaurant owned by a Jew, he lost his business associates who fear being associated with a Jewish businessman could harm their own businesses as well with the public, and it is that business collapse that helped Walsingham see his corruption caused by the lust for money. Learning from his business collapse, Walsingham becomes a supporter for racial equality once again, he joins the progressive movement, and supported Chawosaurian Prime Minister Garfield Webster, whose antisemitism Walsingham had to deal with. Walsingham supported the United States' war effort in World War I, and tried and failed to get a wall street job.

Walsingham died on June 23, 1936, in his home at Belfast, at age 96. His wife died a year after in 1937. Johnathan and Joan Walsingham are buried together at an unknown Jewish cemetery somewhere in Maine's Waldo County.