Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

Franklin also negotiated the Treaty of Paris, the treaty that ended the revolutionary war and also recognized American independence, in 1783.

In 1775, Franklin was elected to the Second Continental Congress and he was then appointed the first postmaster general for the colonies.

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