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Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of 17 children.

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Retired from being a printer- a trade that made him very successful

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Became a city alderman in Philadelphia.

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he was named deputy postmaster general of Britain’s North American colonies; he
was thus in charge of mail in all of the northern colonies.

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Franklin traveled to Britain as the representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly; he spent most of the next 18 years living in London. By this time he was widely known throughout Europe—his
writings and his electrical experiments had brought him widespread fame.

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He returned to America in 1775, and although some colonists distrusted him—he had been living abroad for so long that some feared he was a British spy—he was elected to the Second Continental Congress. With Thomas Jefferson and three other delegates, Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence.

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Franklin helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.

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He was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention

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Franklin died at age 84.