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At 1716 he worked his with father at making candles and cutting wicks.
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In 1723 he worked at a printing press, and learned the newspaper business.
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Age 17 he ran away to start all over and he came back in Philadelphia in 1726. Thomas Denham, who is a merchant who employed Franklin. He was a clerk, shopkeeper and bookkeeper for the business.
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Benjamin Franklin and created a club named the Junto. A think tank of aspiring artisans and scholars. this group gavve rise to many charitable organizations in Philadelphia.
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Franklin set up a printing house in partnership. Also, he became a publisher of a newspaper. The Gazette gave Franklin the forum.
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Ben Franklin the Pamphlet a proposal for promoting useful knowledge which underscored his interests. His daughter Sarah was born in 1743.
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He became a soldier in the Pennsylvania military at the age 42. Also he conducted the famous kite and key experment in 1752.
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Franklin became a foreign diplomat and represented the Pennsylvania Assembly in Massachusetts. He continued to work toward a colonial union in 1766
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In 1776, Franklin was elected to the Second Continental Congress and as a Postmaster General for the colonies, In 1776 he was one of the five men to draft the Declaration of Independence.
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There was a decade in France, Franklin returned in America in 1785. He became the first governors of Pennsylvania and helped write the Constitution of the United States.
