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Benjamin Franklin

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Profession
Inventor
Died
Apr 17, 1790
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
Boston MA
About
Founding Father of the United States who became known for his political works, his writings, and for his contribution to the understanding of electricity, highlighted by his (possibly apocryphal) flying of a kite in a lightning storm. He also invented bifocal glasses, the catheter, the lightning rod, and a musical instrument called a glass harmonica.
Family
He established a common-law marriage to Deborah Reed in 1730 after her mother rejected him as a suitor; he had an illegitimate son named William Temple Franklin in 1762.

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