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Benjamin Franklin

Also known as Silence Dogood, Ben Franklin, The First American, Franklin, Poor Richard

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

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Benjamin Franklin was a politician, publisher, printer, and postmaster born in Boston on 17 January 1706 and died in Philadelphia on 17 April 1790. He held the positions of United States Ambassador to France, United States Ambassador to Sweden, and United States Postmaster General. His spouse was Deborah Read Franklin, and he had a child named William Franklin.

Franklin was a member of the Royal Society, American Philosophical Society, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and French Academy of Sciences. He received the Copley Medal and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *Silence Dogood*, *the Busy-Body*, and *Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 17 January 1706
Died: 17 April 1790
Works: 1518

Top works

The interest of Great Britain considered ...
Chess made easy
The way to wealth
The works of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin's Way to wealth

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1706
Active to: 1790

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Discography

The Early String Quartet in the U.S.A.1992

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 4,245
Total plays: 22,822

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,856x
Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,841x
DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,887x
PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,411x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x

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Music

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Quotes

“I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.”
“The Body of B. Franklin Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and Amended By the Author.”
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Benjamin Franklin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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The autobiography

Benjamin Franklin’s life and writings: after the original London edition, staged by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. 1, Franklin 's life: edited according to a description of his life, begun by himself and continued by his grandson, W. Temple Franklin; using his correspondence and other news

Benjamin Franklin’s life and writings: after the original London edition, staged by his grandson, William Temple Franklin. 3, Franklin 's views on objects of school and poor education, trade and public sciences and human and international rights

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 5, essays mixed with content: with Franklin’s portrait in his housecode

Smoking the fireplaces and chimneys

Benjamin Franklin’s little writings: mostly in the spectator’s manner, along with his life. 2

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 1, Benjamin Franklin “s private correspondence exchange: with Franklin” s portrait

Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s abandoned writings and correspondence: along with his life. 4, Dr. Benjamin Franklin 's Life; Second Theil

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Encyclopedic overview

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.

Born in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette at age 23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the policies of the British Parliament and the Crown. He pioneered and was the first president of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania. He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected its president in 1769. He was appointed deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network.

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Benjamin Franklin