Ben Franklin: A Brief Biography Of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

America has been blessed to have such an intelligent and powerful man on the 100 dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin made his way through every history book in the United States in some way, shape, or form. Franklin would become famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a philosopher, and a writer. Today he is honored as one of the Founding Fathers and greatest men of his time. Benjamin Franklin is credited for founding the first lending library and volunteer fire department. His scientific findings included investigations into electricity and mathematics. He helped write the Declaration of Independence and the U.S Constitution, and help negotiate the Treaty of Paris in the year of 1783.

In 1706, on January 17, a boy by the name of Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the 15th out of 17 children and was the last boy to be born. His father Josiah Franklin was an active soap and candle maker. At the age of 10, young Benjamin was forced to drop out of the Boston Latin School, where he was very successful, to work with his father in the candle making business. Franklin was not fond of the job.” Perhaps to dissuade him from going to sea as one of his brothers had done, Josiah apprenticed Ben at 12 to his brother James at his print shop. Ben took to this like a duck to the water despite his brother hard treatment and when James refused to publish any of his brother’s writing, Ben adopted the pseudonym Mrs. Silence Dogood, and her 14 imaginative witty letters were published in his brother’s newspaper. The New England covenant, to the delight of the readership, but James was angry when it was discovered were his brother’s” (www.biography.com/BenjaminFranklin ). Shortly, Ben left and mo...

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... 1770s Franklin returned to Philadelphia and joined the First Continental Congress.” For Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary War seemed inevitable and in 1776, a year after the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, he advised Thomas Jefferson on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, during the Revolutionary War, would serve as a diplomat in France.”( benjaminfranklinbio.com/benjamin-franklin). Franklin and his diplomatic partners, including John Adams and Jefferson, were successful in securing the support of the French which would prove decisive in the outcome of the war. By the end of the conflict, Franklin was part of the delegation representing America that met with the British representatives for peace talks, culminating in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. -