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Benjamin Franklin

Born in Boston, Massachusetts on the 17th of January, 1706. Benjamin


Franklin assisted his father, a tallow chandler and soap boiler, in his business
from 1716 to 1718. In 1718 young Franklin was apprenticed to his brother
James, as a printer. Franklin ran away in 1723, heading for Philadelphia
where he worked for the printer Sam Keimer. After traveling to London in
1724 to continue learning his trade as a journeyman printer, Franklin
returned to Philadelphia in 1726. By 1730, Franklin established himself as an
independent master printer.
Franklin quickly became not only the most prominent printer in the colonies,
but the man who shaped and defined colonial and revolutionary
Philadelphia. As one who believed in the reasonableness of man and that the
phenomena of nature should serve him, Franklin was greatly interested in the
improvement of the condition of mankind.
Benjamin Franklin was the center of the Junto, an elite group of intellectuals
who were at the core of Philadelphia politics and cultural life for some time
and who became the basis for the American Philosophical Society. He was
also instrumental in the improvement of the lighting and paving of
Philadelphia and in the organization of a police force, fire companies,
Pennsylvania Hospital, the Library Company of Philadelphia, as well as the
Academy and College of Philadelphia.
Franklin was a key political leader at many levels. In 1736 he was chosen
clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, which position he held until 1751. In
1737 he was made postmaster at Philadelphia. In 1754 he was sent to the
Albany Convention where he submitted a plan for colonial unity. He
provisioned Braddock’s army and in 1756 was put in charge of the
northwestern frontier of the province by the Governor. Twice he was sent to
London as agent for the Assembly, 1757-1762 and 1764-1775. With the
outbreak of the Revolution, he was sent as Commissioner to France, 1776-
1785, and in 1781 was on the commission to make peace with Great Britain.
Franklin was a member of the Continental Congress, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, and a framer of both the Pennsylvania and
United States Constitutions. Franklin also served as the American
Ambassador to France.
Franklin was the primary founder and shaper of the new institution which
became the University of Pennsylvania. His 1749 Proposals Relating to the
Education of Youth in Pensilvania were the basis of the Academy which
opened two years later. Franklin was responsible for the hiring of William
Smith as the first provost in 1754. From 1749 to 1755 Benjamin Franklin was
President of the Board of Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable
School of Philadelphia, and he continued as a trustee of the College and then
of the University of the State of Pennsylvania until his death in 1790. For most
of this period he served as an elected trustee; but from 1785-1788 while
President of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Executive Council (the equivalent of
governor), Franklin was an ex-officio trustee.
After a long and exceptionally productive life in politics, science, and
publishing, Franklin died in 1790 in Philadelphia. He is buried in the Christ
Church burial ground.

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