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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790):
Ranked among the country’s greatest statesmen, Franklin was also known as a printer, author, diplomat, philosopher, and scientist. Franklin made many contributions to the cause of the American Revolution and the newly formed federal government that followed. Franklin engaged in many public projects and in 1731 he founded what was probably the first public library in America, chartered in 1742 as the Philadelphia Library.

Ben Franklin became one of the committee of five chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence. He was also one of the signers of the document and addressed the assembly with the statement: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Upon the conclusion of the American War for independence, Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay were appointed to conclude a treaty of peace with Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris was signed at Versailles on September 3, 1783. In 1787 he was elected to be a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, the convention that drew up the U.S. Constitution.
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