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Personalities  /  Benjamin Franklin Quotes  /  By person  /  Benjamin Franklin Quotes Benjamin Franklin by David Martin (1737-1797). Oil on canvas, 1767. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin was America’s   scientist,   inventor,   politician ,   philanthropist   and   business man . He is best known as the only Founding Father who signed all three documents that freed America from Britain. Franklin is credited with drafting the   Declaration of Independence   and the   American Constitution.   He also negotiated the   Treaty of Paris   which ended the Independence War against Britain. Born in a middle class family, he was the 15 th  of 17 children and the youngest son. With only 2 years of formal education he rose to the highest level of society. He never forgot where he started and always referred to himself as “B.F. of Philadelphia, Printer” as  in the ...