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Tags: Benjamin Franklin Fact Cards Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was a printer writer Inventor scientist politician diplomat musician and postmaster. benjamin franklin was born in boston on january 17th 1706. He was the 10th son with 16 siblings! He worked as an apprentice printer for his brother at the New-England Courant. He secretly wrote in the paper as a widow named "Silence Dogood". He worked as an apprentice printer in Pennsylvania and in England. When he returned he started his own print shop and bought the Pennsylvania Gazette. He married Deborah Read in 1730. He opened a small shop and a bookstore formed a group called Junto and joined the Masons. In the 1730's he launched a project to clean Pave and light the streets of Philadelphia. In 1733 he started Poor Richard's Almanac with many famous sayings like "A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned". In 1731 he started the Library Company of Philadelphia which is still there today. In 1736 he opened the Philadelphia Union Fire Company the first in the city. He started the American Philosophical society in 1743 which is still around today. He invented many items including the Franklin stove swimfins glass armonica and bifocals. Franklin started observing electricity in 1746 and flew his famous kite in 1752. In 1751 he helped form the Pennsylvania Hospital which is still around today. 1737 to 1753 he was the postmaster of Philly. In 1775 the US Post Office was established with Franklin as the first postmaster general. As a Postmaster he became interested in currents. He identified and named the Gulf Stream in 1770. In politics he went to England to represent the colonies of Pennsylvania Georgia New Jersey and Massachusetts in 1775. Franklin was elected to the Second Continental Congress and a committee of 5 to draft the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 he left to be an Ambassador to France where he secured French support money and signed the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Benjamin Franklin died in his home in Philadelphia on April 17 1790 at 84 years old.
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