Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin ( the incarnation of the new rational man ) has flown a kite to it.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

A valuable pencil-and-sepia allegorical drawing of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Honore Fragonard has been donated by the art dealer Georges Wildenstein and now hangs in the Blue Room.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Another shape note tunebook named The Sacred Harp ( 1844 ) by Georgia residents Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J.

Benjamin Franklin was familiar with Antoine, as they were both members of the " Benjamin Franklin inquiries " into Mesmer and animal magnetism.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

He discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin on " flammable air " and carefully searched for it in Italy.

Notable 18th-century autobiographies in English include those of Edward Gibbon and Benjamin Franklin.

Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.

Benjamin Franklin Bache was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790 ) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey

** The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, which presents the Benjamin Franklin Medal

After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.

Rogers declined Lajoie ’ s request for an increase in salary and as a result, Lajoie jumped to the crosstown Philadelphia Athletics, owned by former Phillies ' part-owner Benjamin Shibe and managed by Connie Mack.

However, Philadelphia Athletics president Benjamin F. Shibe, who had invented the ball Reach patented, commented, " I look for the leagues to adopt an ' ivory nut ' baseball just as soon as they adopt a ferro-concrete bat and a base studded with steel spikes.

Benjamin Franklin Shibe, 1910

Benjamin Franklin Shibe ( January 23, 1838 – January 14, 1922 ) was an American sporting goods and baseball executive who, along with his sons John and Tom, was half-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League from 1901 until his death.

* Photograph of Benjamin Shibe, Connie Mack and others at the groundbreaking of Shibe Park in 1908 courtesy Temple University Libraries

Henry Benjamin " Hank " Greenberg ( January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986 ), nicknamed " Hammerin ' Hank " or " The Hebrew Hammer ," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.

* 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

In the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Take Me Out to the Holosuite ", Captain Solok, an Academy classmate and longtime rival of Benjamin Sisko, challenges Sisko and other DS9 personnel to a baseball game against his Vulcan team, the Logicians.

* Benjamin Vindel Alvarado – Founder of softball and baseball in Puerto Cortés, famous communist.

Owens attended Benjamin Russell High School, where he excelled in football, baseball, and basketball.

Richard Benjamin Ferrell ( October 12, 1905 – July 27, 1995 ) was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout and executive.

The baseball team plays its home games at Russell C. King Field, and volleyball and men's and women's basketball teams play in the Benjamin Johnson Arena of the Campus Life Building, opened in 1981.

He had been a close friend of Benjamin Markowitz, playing on the same junior baseball league and would visit the same Malibu, California gymnasium to exercise together.

Benjamin Grieve ( born May 4, 1976 in Arlington, Texas ) is an American former professional baseball outfielder.

Benjamin Gaylord " Bennie " Oosterbaan ( February 4, 1906 – October 25, 1990 ) was a three-time first team All-American football end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-time All-American basketball player for the basketball team and an All-Big Ten Conference baseball player for the baseball team.

* Benjamin Edwin Paschal, American baseball outfielder

* Babe Adams ( 1882 – 1968 ), born Charles Benjamin Adams, American baseball pitcher

One day Benjamin Kane ( Lowe ), a television station executive, is visiting a girlfriend ( Ione Skye ) who turns the TV to the show.

The townsite was purchased by a railroad executive, Benjamin F. Abbott, who wished to change the name of the town to Abbottsville, however sensibility prevailed and the evocative name of Eagle Bend was retained.

Fox, who occasionally corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and had met Benjamin Franklin in Paris, predicted that Britain had little practical hope of subduing the colonies, and interpreted the American cause approvingly as a struggle for liberty against the oppressive policies of a despotic and unaccountable executive.

Finally in 1978, following a dispute over administrative expenses, UA's top executives, including Arthur B. Krim, chairman, Eric Pleskow, president and chief executive officer, Robert S. Benjamin, chairman of the finance committee, walked out.

Entrepreneur and business executive alumni include Safra Catz ( President of Oracle Corporation ), David L. Cohen ( executive Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter Detkin ( co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Vice-President and assistant general counsel at Intel ), Paul Haaga ( Vice Chairman of Capital Research and Management Company, a constituent company of the Capital Group Companies ), Sam Hamadeh ( founder of Vault. com ), Edward Benjamin Shils ( professor and founder of the first research center for entrepreneurial studies in the world ( at Wharton )), Gigi Sohn ( founder of Public Knowledge ), and Henry Silverman ( CEO of Cendant Corporation ).

Benjamin Sisko serves as executive officer aboard the USS Saratoga at the Battle of Wolf 359.

Arthur B. Krim, chairman ; Eric Pleskow, president and chief executive officer ; and Robert S. Benjamin, chairman of the finance committee, had become frustrated with the degree of control their corporate parent exerted over the operation of UA, particularly with regard to salaries and other forms of executive compensation.

* Benjamin L. Armstrong, pastor, teacher, administrator, first executive director of National Religious Broadcasters

His criticism of Felt provoked a harsh response from former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin Bradlee, one of only three individuals to know who Deep Throat was prior to the public disclosure, who said he was " baffled " that Colson and Liddy were " lecturing the world about public morality " considering their role in the Watergate scandal.

" After the Vanity Fair story broke, Woodward, Bernstein, and Benjamin C. Bradlee, the Posts executive editor during Watergate, confirmed Felt's claim to be Deep Throat.

She is chief executive of Floella Benjamin Productions, which has made television programmes since 1987.

At the same time, advertising executive Benjamin Barry ( Matthew McConaughey ) is striving for a pitch to advertise diamonds and explains to his boss and co-workers how " a woman in lust wants chocolate, a woman in love wants diamonds.

As of 2012, the executive committee consisted of the following current and retired NFL players: Charlie Batch, Drew Brees, Brian Dawkins, Scott Fujita, Matt Hasselbeck, Matt Light, Brandon Moore, Jeff Saturday, Brian Waters, and Benjamin Watson.

" In addition to General Secretaries Saltzman and Bedacht, those explicitly singled out by the Dies Committee for membership in the Communist Party while holding an executive position in the IWO were President William Weiner, Executive Secretary Herbert Benjamin, General Executive Board members Moissaye J. Olgin and Max Steinberg, and assistant to the General Secretary Rebecca Grecht, among others.

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was the executive editor of The Washington Post during the publication of the Pentagon Papers and played a pivotal role in the newspaper's coverage of the Watergate scandal.

* Benjamin F. Lindheimer, Chicago horse racing and football executive

Benjamin F. Johnson ( 1818 – 1894 ), an executive of the Illinois Central Railroad, donated $ 10, 000 to the city for the building of a statue and bandstand in the commons.

Benjamin W. Heineman ( February 10, 1914 – August 5, 2012 ) was an attorney and American railroad executive.

Seeing a need for a new program in Indiana, in conjunction with Stanley L. Norton, assistant executive, and Rex Pruitt, Scoutmaster of Troop 46, Belzer created the Camper and Woodsman ranks in 1919 at Camp Chank-Tun-Un-Gi, located near Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis.

* Jon Benjamin ( Jewish leader ) ( born 1964 ), chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews

His residence for railroad executive Benjamin E. Smith, one of his last active commissions, was completed in 1871, and is still in use as a home for The Columbus Club.