Ben Franklin 4

Benjamin Franklin left a great legacy when he died on April 17, 1790. He was one of America’s greatest diplomats and the only man to sign all four of the key documents of the American Revolution: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution of the United States. He laid the foundation that changed the study of electricity into a science. He was an inventor who invented …

…his autobiography. Although he never completed it, it is still the only enduring bestseller written in American before the nineteenth century, as well as the most popular autobiography ever written. Works Cited Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986 Franklin, Benjamin. The New Book of Knowledge. Vol. 6 F. Connecticut: Grolier Incorporated, 1988. Hanna, William S. Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Politics. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1964. Van Doren, Carl C. Benjamin Franklin: A Biography. Viking, 1956.