Benjamin Franklin Books
America has never forgotten
Benjamin Franklin
because he wrote things worth reading, and did
things worth writing. He became famous for being
a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a
printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an
economist.
Today, we honor Ben Franklin as one of America's
greatest citizens. His invention of the
lightning rod were among a series of
investigations that won him recognition from the
leading scientists both in England and on the
Continent. He was in England at the time the
Stamp Act caused a furor in the Colonies. He protested the
act but asked the colonists to obey the law,
thus losing some popularity in the colonies
until he stoutly defended American rights at the
time of the debates on repeal of the act. He
seriously considered making his home in England,
where his scientific attainments, his brilliant
mind, and his social gifts of wit and urbanity
had gained him a high place.
As trouble between the
British government and
the Colonies grew with the approach of the
American Revolution, Franklin’s deep love
for his native land and his devotion to
individual freedom brought him back to America
in 1775. There, while his son,
William Franklin, was becoming a leader of
the
Loyalists, Benjamin Franklin became one of
the greatest statesmen of the American
Revolution and of the newborn nation.
He was
appointed to the committee that drafted the
Declaration of Independence, which he signed
in 1776.
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