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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a manufacturer of soap and candles. Part of their training was formal, but mostly self-taught. He worked as an apprentice with his father between 10 and 12 years old and later with his half brother James, a printer, who in 1721 founded the "New England Courant", the fourth largest newspaperin colonial times. Franklin secretly helped over 14 trials that were his first published writings.

A consequence of multiple disagreements with his half brother James, Franklin left Boston to go to Philadelphia in 1723 and then got a job in a print shop. The following year he traveled to London, where he remained for two years. In October 1726, he returned to Philadelphia and became involved inthe printing industry. He published the weekly "Pennsylvania Gazette" (1730-1748), which had been founded in 1728, but his most important literary achievement was the annual publication of "Poor Richard's Almanac" (1733-1758), the second most popular publication, after the Bible, in the days of the colonies, whose fame eventually spread to Europe.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
U.S. First internationalcelebrity
His legacy still surprises after 300 years.
By 1730, Franklin already had married Deborah Read, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Apparently also had children out of wedlock. In 1748 he had achieved financial independence and gained recognition for his philanthropy and support they gave to civil cases and the creation of libraries, educational institutions and hospitals. He also foundtime to pursue science and politics.

Benjamin Franklin served as secretary (1736-1751) and member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly (1751-1764), also as postmaster of Philadelphia (1737-53) and general representative of the colonies (1753-1774). In addition, he was a delegate from Pennsylvania in the Albany Congress (1754), called to join the colonies during the wars of France and India.Congress adopted the "Plan of Union", but the General Assembly of the Colonies refused because usurping their rights.

He lived in England from 1757 to 1762 and from 1764 to 1775, originally as a representative of Pennsylvania and then to Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. During his second stay in England period, which coincided with the growth of colonial resistance, Franklin underwent apolitical metamorphosis. It had been until then a seemingly passive English, essentially concerned with Pennsylvania provincial politics and incredulous of popular movements and the idea of ​​bringing the principles to the end. It was until the tax issue in parliament weakened the old alliances that Franklin decided to lead the fight against the Quaker party property Anglican party and its allies inthe border Presbyterians. The purpose of his stay in London, was the dismissal of the Penn family administration by royal authority and a change of the province by a single owner to the royal colony.

In London, during the crisis of the Stamp Act (Stamp Act), showed his ability as a speaker to speak for the American rights to the House of Commons, his testimony was influential in the repeal ofthis law, act by which was considered the leading spokesman for American rights. As a representative of Pennsylvania, opposed by all means to the enactment of the law in 1765 initially unaware of colonial hostility. He considered the inevitable transition and preferred to obey it while working for its abolition.

In May 1775, Franklin returned to Philadelphia and became a distinguished member ofthe Second Continental Congress, thirteen months later, he was part of the committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence along with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Less than a year and a half, the mature statesman traveled to Europe once again, this time to perform diplomatic functions. From 1776 to 1779, was one of three commissioners to conduct preliminary negotiations and...