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Apr 23, 2024 · Died: April 17, 1790, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. (aged 84) Title / Office: Continental Congress (1775-1775), United States. Founder: American Philosophical Society. Awards And Honors: Hall of Fame (1900) Copley Medal (1753) Recent News. Apr. 22, 2024, 3:41 AM ET (CNN)
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.
Dec 10, 2020 · Benjamin Franklin is best known as one of the Founding Fathers who never served as president but was a respected inventor, publisher, scientist and diplomat. By Biography.com Editors Updated:...
Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the American Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He also made important contributions to science, especially in the understanding of technology.
Benjamin Franklin, (born Jan. 17, 1706, Boston, Mass.—died April 17, 1790, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.), American printer and publisher, author, scientist and inventor, and diplomat. He was apprenticed at age 12 to his brother, a local printer.
He was a diplomat, a scientist, an inventor, a philosopher, an educator, and a public servant. Any one of Franklin’s many accomplishments would have been enough to make him famous. He organized the first library in America. He invented many things, including the lightning rod.
u. v. w. x. y. z. Benjamin Franklin © Franklin was a statesman, diplomat, writer, scientist and inventor, one of the most versatile and talented men in colonial America and a leading figure in...
