Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

agreement ending the American Revolutionary War

memorial in Washington, D.C., United States

English minister and preacher

American scholarly organization and learned society

Franklinia is a monotypic genus in the tea family, Theaceae. The sole species in this genus is a flowering tree, Franklinia alatamaha, commonly called Franklinias or the Franklin tree, and native to the Altamaha River valley in Georgia in the southeastern United States. It has been extinct in the wild since the early 19th century, but survives as a cultivated ornamental tree.

Committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence

psychological phenomenon

mathematician, physicist and astronomer and acting president of Harvard University in 1769 and 1773

science experiment on lightning and electricity

first official circulation coin of the United States of America

street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

American soldier, attorney, and colonial administrator

American diplomat

non-fiction work by Emerich de Vattel

1964 Benjamin Franklin-class submarine

private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.

spouse of Benjamin Franklin

American nautical captain

British businessman (1657-1745)

historian