Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American Founding Father, printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, and diplomat. He published The Pennsylvania Gazette and Poor Richard's Almanack, and by 1753 eight of the fifteen English-language newspapers in the colonies were published by Franklin or his partners. He signed the Declaration of Independence, negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and served as a delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.