Benjamin Franklin was one of the ultimate American’s in the world. Some may even call him the First American. Franklin had a fierce dedication to make America the greatest it could be. He contributed to many projects and ideas that contributed to making America free and invincible. Benjamin Franklin had a very fulfilled and allusive life, and without his keenness to America, we would not have the freedom we have today.
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the youngest boy out of 17 children. Although he only had two years of formal education, he was tremendously fond of books. In his free time he self-taught himself, he would study arithmetic, navigation, and grammar; he also rewrote and compared
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His inventions became highly known and made him even more prevalent. He concluded that lightning is in fact electricity by using his eminent kite experiment. Franklin also developed a number of other inventions such as the Franklin stove, bifocal eyeglasses, and an instrument called the glass armonica made from glass bowls and played with the fingertips, which was used by Beethoven and Mozart. During the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin showed his consecration to America. In 1754, he proposed the Albany Plan, which was vetoed, but helped outline of the Articles of Confederation, which converted the first constitution of the U.S. In 1775, he was elected to serve as a delegate of the Second Continental Congress, and a year later, he was part of the five-member committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Without Benjamin Franklin’s aid, the 13 American colonies were able to declare freedom from British rule. France designated Franklin to be the minister of France. While minister he helped negotiate and draft the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War. Around his final years, he was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, making him the oldest member. Additionally, he served as president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery commending and petitioning the U.S. Congress to end slavery. Unfortunately, on April 17, 1790, he died in Philadelphia at the age of