![]() He also had mostly poor or at best cool relations with his own family, carried on oral and epistolary flirtations with a number of younger women, and changed his mind about a number of significant issues (mostly for the better). ![]() He lived a long life for his time, invented many useful tools as well as proved the connection between electricity and lightning, was the country's national postmaster as well as the publisher of the first novel to appear in the colonies, served his homeland as a diplomat to England and France, and accomplished a bewildering number of other things. ![]() Born in 1706, apprenticed as a printer to his older brother James at age 12, Benjamin Franklin was already publishing pseudonymous satires by the age of 16. ![]()
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