President benjamin franklin biography
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Biography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American printer, scientist, inventor, politician, diplomat, statesman, author, and one of the most colorful characters of the American Revolution.
Early Life
Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1706 to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger.
President benjamin franklin biography
He was the 15th and youngest son of Josiah’s seventeen children.
Franklin learned the printing trade while working for the weekly Boston newspaper, New England Courant. The paper was owned by his brother James.
When the brothers quarreled over letters young Benjamin published under a pseudonym, he left Boston before his apprenticeship expired. Franklin ran off to Philadelphia.
To London and Back
In Philadelphia, Franklin worked as a printer at several different shops.
Encouraged by the Governor of Pennsylvania, Sir William Keith, he traveled to London to purchase equipment to start his own newspaper. Unfortunately, this did not work out and Franklin found employment as a