Franklin, Benjamin ♂

Education

LL.D. 12.2.1759 (gratis).

Birth/childhood

Born 17.1.1706 son of Joseph Franklin, soap boiler, Boston and Abiah Folger.

Career

Printer, publisher, politician and physicist.

Represented United States in Europe 1776-1785.

Signatory to United States Declaration of Independence, 1776.

D.C.L. [Doctor of Civil Law] Oxford 1762.

Publications

The writings of Benjamin Franklin: collected and edited with a life and introduction by Albert Henry Smyth. Vol. 1. (New York: Macmillan, 1905)

Death

Died 17.4.1790.

Sources

• Dictionary of Australian biography
• Biographies
• Works
• Alumnus Chronicle 24 p4f, but full of inaccuracies
• Benjamin Franklin in Wikipedia.