A great man of his time

Benjamin Franklin a wise man

He was a man who was a magnificent inventor he invented the lightning rod, he created a stove that he named after his self invented his own bifocals. He was one of the twelve  founding father. He was also the oldest person to sign the constitution at the age of eighty one years of age. He didn't agree with some part if the constitution he said in his speech about constitution but he did approve some of the things in the U.S constitution .

When he died he said to his daughter “ a dying man can do nothing easy.” He was also one of the three men to sign the peace treaty with England to end the revolutionary war. He revised over Thomas Jefferson’s writing of the declaration of independence and he also added some of his own ideas to the declaration of independence. For many years he worked as the postmaster for the colonies. He started writing more when his brother James didn't write for his newspaper so he fled to Philadelphia

Benjamin Franklin was when franklin went to France he was trying to get the french to help the patriots get back their freedom he was successful at getting them to help. He wasn't like George Washington who fought in the war he was helping by getting other countries to help the patriots win the war.