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1. Printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
   - Franklin

Type of: American Revolutionary leader, author, pressman, printer, scientist, writer

Encyclopedia: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed