and the oldest to sign the Constitution at the age of 81. Benjamin Franklin was famously fascinated by electricity. He performed a number of experiments with it, including using it to cook food.

Benjamin Franklin stated at the Constitutional Convention: 'History furnishes one example of a first Magistrate being formally brought to public Justice. Every body cried out ag[ain]st this as ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... and the United States Constitution. Franklin's long European sojourn ended with his return to America ...

Editor: Memorandum across the centuries to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: After the U.S. Constitution was drafted, you were asked what type of government we would now ...

Benjamin Franklin helps craft the Declaration of Independence, wins French support for the American Revolution, and works on the U.S. Constitution ... the next two weeks. Sign up to get updates ...

Thomas Jefferson helped Franklin draft the Declaration of Independence as well as the U.S. Constitution. As a pacifist, he negotiated the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War in 1783. When ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... and the United States Constitution. Franklin's long European sojourn ended with his return to America ...