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    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a renowned polymath who made significant contributions across many fields. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment known for his discoveries and theories about electricity. As an inventor, he is renowned for inventions like the lightning rod, bifocals, and Franklin stove. He also played a pivotal role in politics and diplomacy, helping to define American values as a blend of practicality and Enlightenment ideals. Franklin held many leadership roles and helped establish institutions in Philadelphia like the fire department and University of Pennsylvania.

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    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a renowned polymath who made significant contributions across many fields. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment known for his discoveries and theories about electricity. As an inventor, he is renowned for inventions like the lightning rod, bifocals, and Franklin stove. He also played a pivotal role in politics and diplomacy, helping to define American values as a blend of practicality and Enlightenment ideals. Franklin held many leadership roles and helped establish institutions in Philadelphia like the fire department and University of Pennsylvania.

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    Benjamin Franklin FRS (January 17, 1706 [O.S.

    January 6, 1705]
    [1]
    April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United
    States and in many ways was "The First American".[2] A renowned
    polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist,
    politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and
    diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American
    Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and
    theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the
    lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.
    [3]
    He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire
    department and a university.
    Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and
    indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and
    spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United
    States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American
    nation.[4] Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as
    a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education,
    community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to
    authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and
    tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry
    Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of
    Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment
    without its heat."[5] To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most
    accomplished American of his age and the most influential in
    inventing the type of society America would become." [6]
    Franklin, always proud of his working class roots, became a
    successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading
    city in the colonies.[7] With two partners he published the
    Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its
    revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British policies. He
    became wealthy publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The
    Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin was also the printer of books for the

    Moravians of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1742 on). Franklin's printed


    Moravian books (printed in German) are preserved, and can be
    viewed, at the Moravian Archives located in Bethlehem. Franklin
    visited Bethlehem many times and stayed at the Moravian Sun Inn.
    He played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania
    and was elected the first president of the American Philosophical
    Society. Franklin became a national hero in America when as agent
    for several colonies he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament in
    London repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat,
    he was widely admired among the French as American minister to
    Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive FrancoAmerican relations. His efforts to secure support for the American
    Revolution by shipments of crucial munitions proved vital for the
    American war effort.
    For many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which
    enabled him to set up the first national communications network. He
    was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as
    national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as
    governor of Pennsylvania. Toward the end of his life, he freed his own
    slaves and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
    His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and
    status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have
    seen Franklin honored on coinage and the $100 bill; warships; the
    names of many towns; counties; educational institutions;
    corporations; and, more than two centuries after his death, countless
    cultural references.

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