Benjamin Franklin

enjamin Franklin, a printer, philosopher, scientist, author, patriot, impeccable husband, and citizen, entered politics around the age of 50. He negotiated French support for the colonists in their attempt to win independence. He also signed the Treaty of Paris (1783), the document which brought the war to an end by making peace between England and America. Franklin later went on to help draft the Declaration of Independence.

Franklin invented the lightning rod, bifocals, stove and many other beneficial innovations. ---Anonymous
He invented the printing press and a xylophone also. ---BABE
Ben was the founder of the first fire insurance company! ---Lee Bedsaul
If you would not be forgotten,as soon as you are dead and rotten,either write things worth reading,or do things wroth the writing.-Benjamin Franklin- ---blôôd¥§kµll
Benjamin Franklin's grandfather was a Quaker living on Nantucket Island. ---Anonymous
Franklin said, " We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." ---Mr. Kightlinger
Franklin was born in Boston 1706. He published' "Poor Richard's Almanak H established the College of Philadelphia ( now the University of Pennsylvania). ---D Keller
Franklin helped edit the Declaration of Independence ---Ashley Brandt

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