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benjamin franklin
1777 Jean-Baptiste Greuze portrait of Franklin.
Trivia about benjamin franklin
In 1785 he wrote that "After fifty years' service in public affairs", he wanted to "make plenty of experiments"
At 81, this Pennsylvanian was the oldest delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention
At his death in 1790, he left 200-year trust funds to the cities of Boston & Philadelphia
In 1733 he wrote, "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart"
In 1791, one year after his death, part of this American's autobiography was published in Paris as "Memoires"
For gossip columns, he wrote under the name Busy Body; to discuss marriage, he became Anthony Afterwit
In the 18th century he wrote, "I have only to move my eyes up or down... to see distinctly far or near"
In 1773 this ex-printer & inventor published "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced to A Small One"
This author's almanacs are still popular
His experiments in electricity led him to invent the lightning rod
It was in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy that he wrote nothing is "Certain except death & taxes"
This colonial inventor suggested Daylight Saving Time
In his 1748 work "Advice to a Young Tradesman" he wrote, "Remember that time is money"
In 1730 he became sole owner of the Pennsylvania Gazette; he also printed it & wrote much of it himself
He was only 23 in 1729 when he began publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette
In a 1789 letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, this American said, "But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"
In 1728 this Philadelphian & partner Hugh Meredith bought a printing press
In 1743 he founded the American Philosophical Society
The 1758 preface to his “Poor Richard's Almanac” says, “He that lives upon hope will die fasting”
1 man, 1 scientific mission... to tame the heavens... In 1752 he would invent the lightning rod... & electrify the world
The day after he landed from England in 1775, Penn.'s assembly named him to the Continental Congress
He also created Bridget, a wife for his Poor Richard Saunders
New Jersey's last royal governor was an illegitimate son of this Philadelphia printer-inventor
The American she called "L'Ambassadeur Electrique"
A Philadelphia post office museum that honors him offers his special "B. Free" cancellation
In a famous kite experiment, this Statesman proved that lightning is a form of electricity
He refused to patent or to profit from his lightning rod, a device he first described in a 1751 article
In 1785 Thomas Jefferson succeeded him as minister to France
In his will he called himself a "printer" & "late minister plenipotentiary" to the court of France
The Post's history goes back to The Pennsylvania Gazette founded by this man
Man whose earlier life is the subject here"His business ventures made him wealthy, free to pursue his experiments and inventions and to devote his life..."
"You may delay, but time will not", he wrote in "Poor Richard's Almanack"
In the late 1700s this American statesman brought the shoe-shaped slipper bathtub back from France
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards", he advised in "Poor Richard's Almanack"
One of the first non-heads of state to appear on a stamp was this American on the U.S. 5-cent stamp in 1847
During a storm in the summer of 1752, he attached a key to a kite string & proved that lightning was electricity
He was 16 & hadn't yet moved to Philadelphia when he wrote essays called "The Dogood Papers" in 1722
In 1723 he became the nominal publisher of the New-England Courant, his brother James' weekly newspaper
In May 1732 he founded the Philadelphische Zeitung, the first foreign-language newspaper in the English colonies
This founding father wrote that the eagle was a coward but the turkey was respectable & a Native American
In 1761 this Pennsylvania statesman invented the glass harmonica
The oldest signer was this 81-year-old Pennsylvanian
He said his 1744 stove prevented one from being "scorch'd before, while he's froze behind"
He was never president, but he is the little green man on the front of the U.S. $100 bill
In 1732 this printer founded Philadelphische Zeitung, the first German-language newspaper in the English colonies
This colonial observed, "Fish and visitors stink after three days"
From 1757 to 1762 this man was ambassador extraordinaire of the American colonies to Great Britain
He coined the saying, Early to bed & early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise"
Isaac Asimov's book "The Kite that Won the Revolution" told the story of this man & his kite experiments
In 1724, at the request of the Penn. governor, he went to London to complete his training as a printer
In 1783 he wrote, "There never was a good war or a bad peace"
In the 1720s at age 16, this statesman & inventor wrote popular articles for the New England Courant newspaper
In 1730 he assumed full ownership of the Pennsylvania Gazette
His biographer Carl Van Doren said, "After a century and a half he remains Philadelphia's 1st citizen"
He didn't care for the bald eagle as our national symbol, calling it "a bird of bad moral character"
He first went to Philadelphia in 1723 because he heard printer Andrew Bradford's best worker had died
Familiar with France from experimenting there, in 1779 he became our first ambassador to France
Asked after the Constitutional Convention "What have we got?", he replied "A republic, if you can keep it"
1787:81 yrs old & penn. snds me 2 cnst cnv.im gttng 2 old fr ths...stf.lol
A Founding Father:"There never was a good war or a bad peace"
This statesman attended Masonic lodge meetings with the sculptor Houdon, who did the bust of him seen here
Signing the Decl. of Ind., he said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"
The Pennsylvania assembly sent him to London as its agent twice: 1757-1762 & 1764-1775
In a 1783 letter to Josiah Quincy, he wrote "There was never a good war or a bad peace"
The Stamp Act was repealed soon after this founding father argued against it in Britain's Parliament
His stature in the early history of the United States was electrifying
He served jointly with William Hunter as Postmaster General of the colonies from 1753 to 1774
The USA's first woman newspaper editor, Ann Franklin, was this historic man's sister-in-law
Of people on the front of current U.S. bills, he was born the earliest
The mother of this founding father's illegitimate son William has never been identified
His funeral on April 21, 1790 drew 20,000 mourners in Philadelphia, the largest U.S. public gathering to that time
He served jointly with William Hunter as Postmaster General of the Colonies from 1753 to 1761
As a teenager, he wrote essays for a New England newspaper under the female pen name "Silence Dogood"
On Feb 3, 1757, when the Assembly directed this man to go to England to address colonial grievances
In 1777, while serving in Paris, this Pennsylvanian wrote that "our cause is the cause of all mankind"
Colonist seen here in an early portrait, he's wearing the emblem of a company he founded in 1736:
This revolutionary patriot's son William stuck with the crown as Royal Governor of New Jersey