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Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman
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dead
- born
- 1706
- died
- 1790
- age at death
- 84
- known for
- politician, diplomat, polymath
1706 – 1790
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who benjamin franklin is
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first postmaster general.
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