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    Benjamin Franklin

    American polymath and statesman (–)

    "Ben Franklin" redirects here. For other uses, see Benjamin Franklin (disambiguation).

    Benjamin Franklin

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    Portrait by namn Duplessis,

    In office
    October 18, &#;– November 5,
    Vice President
    Preceded byJohn Dickinson
    Succeeded byThomas Mifflin
    In office
    September 28, &#;– April 3,
    Appointed byCongress of the Confederation
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byJonathan Russell
    In office
    March 23, &#;– May 17,
    Appointed byContinental Congress
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byThomas Jefferson
    In office
    July 26, &#;– November 7,
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byRichard Bache
    In office
    May &#;– October
    In office
    August 10, &#;– January 31,
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byVacant
    In office
    May &#;– October
    Preceded

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    A Quick Biography of
    Benjamin Franklin



    Francis Folger Franklin, Ben's son.
    (Posthumous painting. Artist and date unknown)

    Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.

    Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling. But, as young Benjamin loved to read he had him apprenticed to his brother James, who was a printer. After helping James compose pamphlets and set type which was grueling work, year-old Benjamin would sell their products in the streets.

    Apprentice Printer

    When Benjamin was 15 his brother started The New England Courant the first "newspaper" in Boston. Though there were two papers in the city before James's Courant, they only reprinted news from abroad. James's paper carried a

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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    book by Benjamin Franklin

    Cover of the first English edition of

    AuthorBenjamin Franklin
    Original&#;titleMémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin
    LanguageAmerican English
    GenreAutobiography
    PublisherBuisson, Paris (French edition)
    J. Parson's, London (First English reprint)

    Publication date

    Publication placeUnited States

    Published&#;in English

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from to ; however, Franklin appear to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.

    Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. There are actual breaks between the

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