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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a man of many roles--printer, author, philosopher, scientist,inventor, diplomat, and politician to name only a few. He lived a wide and varied life and found himself at the center of virtually every major event involving America during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was so successful as businessman that he was able to retire at the age of forty-two. He proved equally adept at science,and his experiment in electricity made him the most famous America in the colonies. Politics and diplomacy occupied him for the most of the latter half of his life.