Benjamin Franklin (1705 – 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Taken from an illustration of 1800 titled 'Distinguished masons of the revolution'

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