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What the Founding Fathers Believed
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
		John Adams Samuel Adams Josiah Bartlett Carter Braxton Charles Carroll Samuel Chase Abraham Clark George Clymer William Ellery William Floyd Benjamin Franklin Elbridge Gerry Button Gwinnett John Hancock Lyman Hall Benjamin Harrison John Hart Joseph Hewes Thomas Heyward, Jr. William Hooper Stephen Hopkins Francis Hopkinson Samuel Huntington Thomas Jefferson Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Francis Lewis Philip Livingston Thomas Lynch, Jr. Thomas McKean Arthur Middleton Lewis Morris Robert Morris John Morton Thomas Nelson, Jr. William Paca John Penn Robert Treat Paine George Read Caesar Rodney George Ross Benjamin Rush Edward Rutledge Roger Sherman James Smith Richard Stockton Thomas Stone George Taylor Charles Thomson Matthew Thornton George Walton William Whipple William Williams James Wilson John Witherspoon Oliver Wolcott George Wythe
Signers of the Constitution
		Abraham Baldwin Richard Bassett Gunning Bedford, Jr. John Blair William Blount David Brearly Jacob Broom Pierce Butler Daniel Carroll George Clymer Jonathan Dayton John Dickinson William Few Thomas Fitzsimons Benjamin Franklin Nicholas Gilman Nathaniel Gorham Alexander Hamilton Jared Ingersoll William Jackson (Secretary) Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer William Samuel Johnson Rufus King John Langdon William Livingston James Madison James McHenry Thomas Mifflin Gouverneur Morris Robert Morris William Paterson Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney George Read John Rutledge Roger Sherman Richard Dobbs Spaight George Washington Hugh Williamson James Wilson
Other Founders
		John Quincy Adams Elias Boudinot Jedediah Morse John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg Noah Webster
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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity, and as a political writer and activist, he supported the idea of an American nation. As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence of the United States possible.

The Declaration of Independence and Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania Ben Franklin was an inventor, a writer, printer, scientist, and statesman who only went to school until the age of ten. Franklin was also one of the framers of the Declaration of Independence, and reading this book will help students to understand how the document was written, why it was created, and what it has meant to our country's history.	Benjamin Franklin's Account with the Lodge of Masons 1731-1737 as Found Upon the Pages of His Dail Reprinted for the first time ever, is positive proof that Franklin performed printing services for his Masonic brethren and even printed the Book of Constitutions which was the first Masonic publication in the Western world. Essential for the Masonic historian.	Who Was Benjamin Franklin? Full of the details kids want to know, the true story of Ben Franklin is by turns funny and sad, but always honest and inspiring. Illustrations.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1903 Franklin's autobiography, incomplete as it is, has become the classic of ambitious youth-not because it has any great distinction of style, but because it is so evidently the genuine expression of a genuine man; the plain, unvarnished tale of a life whereof no incident could fail to be of the deepest interest as casting a light on its evolution.	Benjamin Franklin: Young Printer Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Benjamin Franklin, as he embarked his adventures as a young printer.	Benjamin Franklin Politician Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous ego, smart enough not to flaunt his superiority but to let others proclaim it. To understand him and his role in great events, one must realize the omnipresence of this ego, and the extent to which he mirrored the feelings of other colonial Pennsylvanians. With this in mind, Francis Jennings sets forth some new ideas about Franklin as the first American . In so doing, he provides a new view of the beginnings of the American Revolution in Franklin's struggle against Thomas Penn. By striving against Penn's feudal lordship (and therefore against King George) Franklin became master of the Pennsylvania assembly. It was in this role that he suggested a meeting of the Continental Congress which, as Jennings notes, flies in the face of historical opinion which suggests that Boston patriots had to drag Pennsylvanians into the revolution. Franklin's autobiography omits discussion of his heroic struggle against Penn and, in so doing, robs history of his true role in the making of the new country. It is through an accurate accounting of what Franklin did, not what he said he did in his autobiography (which Jennings likens to a campaign speech), that we understand the author's use of the term first American .
The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin Wood scrutinizes the less typically-American traits possessed by Franklin--such as his longtime loyalty to the Crown--and why he still became one of the Revolution's necessary men.From The Publisher:From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic--and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes--comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex--and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin's life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country's idea of itself.About The Author:Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor at Brown University. His 1970 book, The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787, received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1993 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize. Professor Wood's work has also been recognized by the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.	Benjamin Franklin What do libraries, streetlights, and fire stations have in common? What about bifocal lenses and the odometer? Sayings like haste makes waste? Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents: a scientist who experimented with electricity; a diplomat who served as envoy to France and negotiated peace with England; a mapmaker, printer, and writer famous for his Poor Richard's Almanack. He signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and established America's first hospital. The list of his accomplishments is astonishing and wide ranging. When he lived, his work touched the lives of every person in the new United States of America; some three hundred years later, he continues to fascinate, amaze, and inspire today's young readers.	Benjamin Franklin Through Benjamin Franklin's own words, these writings present remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments as a writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. Additional writings from Franklin's wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the man who became a legend in his own time. Includes a new introduction.

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