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Born, Boston, Massachusetts

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Apprenticed as a printer to his brother James Franklin

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Worked in London, England, as a journeyman printer

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Purchased the Pennsylvania Gazette

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Published Poor Richard's Almanack

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Appointed postmaster of Philadelphia

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Published Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Elected to Pennsylvania Assembly; served until 1764

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Famous Kite Experiment

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Served on Continental Congress committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence

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Appointed United States minister plenipotentiary in France

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Signed treaties with France

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Signed Treaty of Paris with Great Britain ending the revolutionary war and recognizing American independence

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Represented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention

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Died in Philadelphia and interred in the city's Christ Church Burial Ground

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In 1741: Franklin invented the iron stove.