Benjamin FranklinAmerica was fortunate to have such an intelligent and powerful man on the $100 bill. Benjamin Franklin made his way through every US history book in one way, shape, or form. Franklin would become famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a philosopher, and a writer. Today he is honored as one of the founding fathers and the greatest men of his time. Benjamin Franklin is credited with founding the first lending library and the first volunteer fire department. His scientific discoveries included investigations into electricity and mathematics. He helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in the year 1783. In 1706, on January 17, a boy named Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the fifteenth of 17 children and was the last boy to be born. His father Josiah Franklin was an active soap and candle maker. At the age of 10, young Benjamin was forced to drop out of Boston Latin School, where he was very successful, to work with his father in the candle-making business. Franklin didn't like work. Perhaps to dissuade him from going to sea as one of his brothers had done, Josiah apprenticed Ben at age 12 to his brother James in his printing shop. Ben took to it like a duck to water despite his brother's harsh treatment, and when James refused to publish his brother's writings, Ben adopted the pen name Mrs. Silence Dogood, and his 14 witty and imaginative letters were published in his brother's newspaper. The New England Covenant, to the delight of readers, but James was enraged when it turned out to be his brother's” (www.biography.com/BenjaminFranklin ). In short, Ben left and... middle of paper... 1770 Franklin returned to Philadelphia and joined the First Continental Congress. For Benjamin Franklin, the Revolutionary War seemed inevitable, and in 1776, a year after the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, he advised Thomas Jefferson on drafting the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin served as a diplomat in France during the Revolutionary War.”(benjaminfranklinbio.com/benjamin-franklin). Franklin and his diplomatic partners, including John Adams and Jefferson, managed to secure French support that would prove decisive in the outcome of the war. At the end of the conflict, Franklin was part of the delegation representing America that met with British representatives for peace talks, culminating in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. -