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Benjamin Franklin

Also known as Silence Dogood, Ben Franklin, The First American, Franklin, Poor Richard

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

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Benjamin Franklin was a politician, publisher, printer, and postmaster born in Boston on 17 January 1706 and died in Philadelphia on 17 April 1790. He held the positions of United States Ambassador to France, United States Ambassador to Sweden, and United States Postmaster General. His spouse was Deborah Read Franklin, and he had a child named William Franklin.

Franklin was a member of the Royal Society, American Philosophical Society, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and French Academy of Sciences. He received the Copley Medal and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *Silence Dogood*, *the Busy-Body*, and *Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin*.

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Born: 17 January 1706
Died: 17 April 1790
Works: 1518

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Benjamin
Family name: Franklin
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Boston
Place of death: Philadelphia
Spouse: Deborah Read Franklin
Father: Josiah Franklin
Sibling: James Franklin
Occupation: philosopher
Educated at: Boston Latin School
Employer: University of Pennsylvania
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: deism
Participant in: Albany Congress
Field of work: physics
Sport: chess
Country for sport: United States
Image: Joseph Siffrein Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin - Google Art Project.jpg

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member of: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Commons category: Benjamin Franklin
date of birth: 1706-01-17
date of death: 1790-04-17
topic's main category: Category:Benjamin Franklin
Commons Creator page: Benjamin Franklin
Commons gallery: Benjamin Franklin
name in native language: Benjamin Franklin
Y-DNA Haplogroup: Haplogroup V
pseudonym: Richard Saunders
cause of death: pleurisy
place of burial: Christ Church Burial Ground
writing language: English language
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P8168: Peter Neusel
has works in the collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
National Governors Association biography URL: www.nga.org/governor/benjamin-franklin
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
relative: Ann Smith Franklin
P12749: Paul E. Kahle
manner of death: natural causes

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Benjamin Franklin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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The autobiography

Benjamin Franklin’s life and writings: after the original London edition, staged by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. 1, Franklin 's life: edited according to a description of his life, begun by himself and continued by his grandson, W. Temple Franklin; using his correspondence and other news

Benjamin Franklin’s life and writings: after the original London edition, staged by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. 3, Franklin 's views on objects of school and poor education, trade and public sciences and human and international rights

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 5, essays mixed with content: with Franklin’s portrait in his housecode

Smoking the fireplaces and chimneys

Benjamin Franklin’s little writings: mostly in the spectator’s manner, along with his life. 2

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 1, Benjamin Franklin “s private correspondence exchange: with Franklin” s portrait

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 4, Dr. Benjamin Franklin 's Life; Second Theil

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Encyclopedic overview

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.

Born in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette at age 23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the policies of the British Parliament and the Crown. He pioneered and was the first president of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania. He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected its president in 1769. He was appointed deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network.

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Benjamin Franklin