Search Results: Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American printer, writer, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, often regarded as a Founding Father of the United States. He rose to prominence as editor of The Pennsylvania Gazette and author of Poor Richard's...

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, painted in Paris, c. 1785. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, a partisan newspaper supporting the Democratic-Republican Party. Bache was arrested under the Alien and Sedition Acts and died...

Oil on slate painting by Benjamin West, c.1816. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

A c. 1767 oil-on-canvas portrait by David Martin of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). This portrait depicts Franklin as a scholarly figure of the Enlightenment with a bust of Isaac Newton gazing at him. The portrait was commissioned by Robert...

Captain Benjamin Hornigold was a British pirate active in the Caribbean and North Atlantic from 1716 to 1717. Hornigold’s greatest claim to fame (or infamy) is that he taught the pirating ropes to Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard (d. 1718). Giving...

Major John André (1750-1780) was a British military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He is best known for negotiating with the American turncoat Benedict Arnold, who offered to hand over the stronghold of...

Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1714), wife of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas portrait attributed to Benjamin Wilson, c. 1758. American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

The Treaty of Paris, signed on 3 September 1783 by representatives from Great Britain and the United States, was the peace agreement that formally ended the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and recognized the United States as an independent...

Franklin the printer, photograph of a painting by artist Charles E. Mills, c. 1914. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.