The Christian Faith of the Founding Fathers
“Facts are stubborn things.”
Benjamin Franklin
A Founding Father of the United States
Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
“The First American”
Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
“The First American”
America’s Christian Heritage Remembered
Because much rewriting of American history is destroying the truth.
Quotation Background
Information for Those Who Would Remove to America, September, 1782
Biography
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. » Full BioAmerica’s Christian Heritage
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