Benjamin Franklin America was fortunate to have such an intelligent and powerful man on the $100 bill. Benjamin Franklin has made his way through every United States history book in one way or another. Franklin would become famous as a scientist, inventor, philosopher and writer. Today he is honored as one of the founding fathers and greatest men of his time. Benjamin Franklin is credited with founding the first lending library and the first volunteer fire department. His scientific discoveries included research into electricity and mathematics. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution, as well as negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783. In 1706, on January 17, a boy named Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, in Massachusetts. He was the 15th of 17 children and the last boy to be born. His father Josiah Franklin was an active soap and candle maker. At the age of 10, young Benjamin was forced to abandon his studies at the Boston Latin School, where he did very well, to work with his father making candles. Franklin didn't like this job. Perhaps to dissuade him from going to sea as one of his brothers had done, Josiah apprenticed Ben at age 12 to his brother James in his printing shop. Ben took to this like a duck to water despite his brother's mistreatment and when James refused to publish his brother's writings, Ben adopted the pseudonym Mrs. Silence Dogood, and her 14 witty letters and of imagination were published in his brother's newspaper. The New England Alliance, much to the reader's delight, but James was angry when it was discovered it belonged to his brother” (www.biography.com/BenjaminFranklin). Soon after, Ben left and more... middle of paper... 1770s, Franklin returned to Philadelphia and joined the First Continental Congress. For Benjamin Franklin, the Revolutionary War seemed inevitable, and in 1776, a year after the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, he advised Thomas Jefferson on drafting the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, during the Revolutionary War, would serve as a diplomat in France. »(benjaminfranklinbio.com/benjamin-franklin). Franklin and his diplomatic partners, including John Adams and Jefferson, succeeded in gaining French support, which would prove decisive in the outcome of the war. At the end of the conflict, Franklin was part of the delegation representing America that met with British representatives for peace talks, which culminated in the Treaty of Paris in 1977. 1783. -