Fun Fact: Benjamin Franklin

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• Benjamin Franklin founded the Union Fire Company, a fire-fighting company of America.
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• He presided The Academy and College of Philadelphia. He served as the Justice of Peace for Philadelphia.
• He was appointed as the deputy postmaster-general of North America, where he was instrumental in bringing reforms to the postal system.
• He was the head of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Albany Congress in 1754. Benjamin Franklin was active in the Pontiac’ s rebellion and in the opposition of the 1765 Stamp Act in London.
• He was one of the authors of the ‘Declaration of Independence’.
• Franklin was a key player in the American Enlightenment, which was a part of the great intellectual movement called the ‘Age of Enlightenment’.