Archives
by Benjamin Franklin, Ellen Cohn, Judith M. Adkins
1959BiographyStatesmenAmerican history: c 1500 to c 1800American history: c 1800 to c 1900Biography: historical
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Open LibraryAbout this book
A comprehensive edition of the papers of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the founders of the United States of America. Franklin had many careers during the course of his life including service as a diplomat, printer, writer, inventor, scientist, lawmaker, and postmaster. At the age of 23, Franklin became a newspaper editor and printer, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette and later creating and publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack under the pseudonym “Richard Saunders.” He was part of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and was a delegate at the U.S. Constitution. Franklin also served as the first ambassador to France and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris (1783) with England. He was a founder of the University of Pennsylvania and late in life petitioned Congress on behalf of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery.
Themes & subjects
BiographyStatesmenAmerican history: c 1500 to c 1800American history: c 1800 to c 1900Biography: historicalOther prose: 16th to 18th centuries
First published 1959Characters & people
Setting
United States
About the author
Benjamin Franklin
17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790
A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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