Benjamin Franklin contribution and ideal american

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1776. Since he was born in a poor family and he didn’t get a chance to attend school, he was still an ambitious and self-educated person. He also wanted to be become a Politician, scientist and inventor. His accomplishments as a scientist, publisher and statesman are particularly remarkable when considered in the context of colonial North America, which lacked the cultural and commercial institutions to nourish original ideas. His dedication to the improvement of everyday life for the widest number of American people made him an incredible mark on the emerging nation. In many ways Benjamin Franklin was most famous and influenced much of American life in his long career. Created his own image, collections of idealism, ambitions of morality and all of these couldn’t distinguish him from other colonists. There are many things that made Benjamin Franklin so fascinating in his intellectual life such as in the printing business, his excellence in public relations, his civic projects and his founding of the first library in Philadelphia, which became America's first public library. He served as a president librarian, and then secretary of the library. In addition to that in 1734 he organized the Union Fire Company, which is America’s first fire department.

Although Benjamin franklin had not had much of formal education, he was a good writer and reader. At the age of twelve, Benjamin Franklin had been working with his family as a printer and delivering newspaper. Soon after he arrived in Philadelphia, he opened his own printing shop, and published one magazine called ‘Pennsylvania Gazette”, which provided a lot of information about politics, social and cultural issues. He also used cartoons and pictures so th...

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...s an important and influential Founding Father, his contributions were not only to make him famous but it also played a key role in changing the overall shape of America and created new Americanize culture. Franklin was a writer, printer, postmaster, scientist and inventor. His contribution and support the declaration of independence gave him much respect and earned the title to be called “the first American” and “Founding Fathers of the United States”. For so many reasons Benjamin Franklin was most famous and influenced much of American life in his long career. Created his own image, collections of idealism, ambitions of morality and for all most important reasons Franklin couldn’t distinguish from other colonists. Considering his contributions and his achievement in his life career and also what he did for America is remarkable, which made him an ideal American.