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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 176—April 17, 179), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American politician and physicist.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the three founders of the United States, and was named the sixth among the 1 people who influenced the United States by the authoritative American periodical Atlantic Monthly.

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Josiah Franklin, the father of Benjamin Franklin, was born in 1657, the son of a blacksmith family in Northamptonshire, England. Mother Abiah Folger was born in 1667 to a schoolteacher family in Boston, Massachusetts.

Josiah Franklin got married for the first time in England in 1677. After giving birth to several children, her family left England in 1683 and moved to Boston to make a living by selling groceries. Then his first wife died, and his second wife, Abby, gave birth to Benjamin Franklin in Boston.

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, North America on January 17th, 176. His father was an English painter. At that time, he made candles and soap, and he had seventeen children. Franklin was the youngest. Franklin entered school at the age of eight. Although his academic performance was excellent, his father's income could not afford his schooling because of too many children in his family. So he left school at the age of ten and went home to help his father make candles.

Franklin only studied in school for two years in his life. At the age of twelve, he became an apprentice in a small printing house run by his brother James. Since then, he has been a printer for nearly ten years, but his study has never stopped. He saved money from his meals to buy books.

At the same time, taking advantage of his work, he made friends with apprentices from several bookstores, secretly borrowed books from bookstores at night, read them all night and returned them the next morning. He reads a wide range, from popular books on natural science and technology to papers by famous scientists and works by famous writers.

in p>1736, Franklin was elected secretary of the Pennsylvania legislature.

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