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

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

He was later joined on the White House Peace Vigil by anti-nuclear activists Concepcion Picciotto and Ellen Benjamin.

During his first tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu " tried and failed to have Orient House shut down, amid warning from the international community that such a step would be regarded very negatively.

File: Latrobe White House cropa2. jpg | Principal story plan for the white house by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1807.

In the wake of Benjamin Disraeli's victory, Gladstone retired from the leadership of the Liberal party, although he retained his seat in the House.

Benjamin Franklin, in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the opulent mansions of the land owners, said that in New England " every man " is a property owner, " has a Vote in public Affairs, lives in a tidy, warm House, has plenty of good Food and Fuel, with whole clothes from Head to Foot, the Manufacture perhaps of his own family.

* December 16 – Benjamin Andrew, American Continental Congressman for Georgia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives ( b. 1713 )

House Speaker Schuyler Colfax, a Radical Republican from Indiana, was nominated for vice-president on the sixth ballot, beating out the early favorite, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio.

After being ratified in the Senate on April 8, 1890 by a vote of 51-1, the Sherman Act passed unanimously ( 242-0 ) in the House of Representatives on June 20, 1890, and was then signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 2, 1890.

After Lincoln installed Brigadier General George F. Sheply as Military Governor of Louisiana in May 1862, Sheply sent two anti-slavery representatives, Benjamin Flanders and Michael Hahn, elected in December 1862, to the House which capitulated and voted to seat them.

* In 1868, after President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, the Senate came one vote short of removing him from office ; if Johnson had been removed, President pro tempore Benjamin Wade would have become Acting President.

The Red House in Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived and worked together from 1957 until Britten ’ s death in 1976, is now the home of the Britten-Pears Foundation, established to promote their musical legacy.

The tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained loyal to the House of David.

British Israelites believe that Jews descend only from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, while the House of Israel gave rise to the British people or Anglo-Saxon-Celtic kindred peoples of northwestern Europe.

It was as in recognition of his services to the nation that Queen Victoria made Mary Anne a peeress in her own right, Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, as Benjamin wished to remain in the House of Commons.

* Benjamin W. Lacy, ( 1839 – 1895 ), born in New Kent County, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Supreme Court of Virginia

File: Petty-Roberts-Beatty Octagon House. JPG | The Petty-Roberts-Beatty House is an Octagon house built in 1861 by Benjamin Franklin Petty.

Dolley Madison worked with the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe to furnish the White House, the first official residence built for the president of the United States.

* Benjamin Bosworth House — John Perry Rd.

Nathaniel Ramsay / Key-Ramsey House Site ( CE-1300 ): Originally, the home of Francis Key, birthplace of John Ross Key and Father of Francis Scott Key composer of the “ Star Spangled Banner .” This structure was indicated in Benjamin Latrobe ’ s 1813 sketch of Charlestown, located where the Charlestown Parsonage for St. John ’ s Methodist Church stands today.

* Benjamin Thompson House

As of the 2010 mid-term election, Coon Rapids is represented in the State House by districts 47A ( Denise Dittrich, Democrat ), 47B ( Melissa Hortman, Democrat ), and 49B ( Brandon Peterson, Republican ); and in the State Senate by districts 47 ( Benjamin Kruse, Republican ) and 49 ( Michelle Benson, Republican ).