Frankland Watts is a proud native of the Upstate and a resident of Wellford, South Carolina. Frankland was raised in a middle-class family shaped by service and education. His father was a healthcare worker and retired Evangelical pastor, and his mother, a first-generation university graduate, instilled in him the importance of compassion, love, and opportunity. Frankland’s father passed when he was 2 years old. Growing up with a widowed mother helped shape his commitment to supporting single-parent households and expanding access to affordable healthcare.

From a young age, Frankland knew he wanted to make a change in the world and dedicate his life to acts of public service and advocacy. He witnessed the corruption that spilled from Washington, DC and Columbia, SC. Hate. Division. Elitism. Inequality. and Exploitation.

In 2020, Frankland began advocating for individuals experiences homelessness through a partnership with United Ministries in Greenville, SC. During this time, he partnered with local small businesses to raise over $2,000 and organize essential care packages for members of the Greenville homeless community.

Frankland holds a degree in Political Science and Public Policy from Anderson University. In 2024, he continued his commitment to minority advocacy by challenging a longstanding discriminatory policy that Anderson University has held since its inception. During his senior research he examined the impacts of Title IX exemptions, which seek removal of LGBTQIA+ students and faculty on universities across the United States. His work highlighted how exemptions continue to allow legal discrimination and how discrimination can affect academic performance. To this day there are many schools, with exemptions, that allow legal discrimination against members of minority communities including Anderson University, Bob Jones University, North Greenville University, and Charleston Southern University.

Frankland is running to represent every last one of you, especially for the voices that do not get heard. He is putting his name on the ballot for the families struggling to put food on the table for their loved ones, for the girls watching the world turn into their history class, and for the young people looking for solutions to our dying planet.

This campaign is about all of us and as your future member of the Spartanburg County Council, Frankland will collaborate with fellow council members to expand LGBTQIA+ protections, limiting the construction of AI data centers, providing support to our small business and local startups, putting you before greedy corporations, providing support to our undocumented community, and lowering costing for everyone residing in Spartanburg County. He will also seek to expand funds for the library and schools systems to create an equitable future for everyone.

Frankland will work tirelessly to make Spartanburg safe, affordable, and equitable for all residents. It is time the council sees a leader who listens and fights for working families and underrepresented voices.