7 Insights on America’s Most Successful Revolutionary Entrepreneur, Benjamin Franklin
Forbes
09.20.2022
1 min read
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Born in 1706 in Boston, Franklin ended his long and productive life in 1790 in Philadelphia, his adopted home city. Over the course of his remarkable 84 years, he became a publisher, printer, statesman, scientist, diplomat, and inventor. He assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence, and was a leading signatory. A prolific and highly quotable writer, and one of the best-known and best-loved of all the Founding Fathers, he was renowned for the wit of his expression, his learning, and his sagacity.
Here are only a few facts about Franklin that define him as one of the most perceptive, successful, and emblematic entrepreneurs in American history.