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 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

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, ( 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881 ) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure.

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

On April 8, 1835, the Monroe County, Michigan sheriff arrived at the home of Major Benjamin F. Stickney, an Ohio partisan.

* April 19 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1804 )

* April 18 – William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli in the United Kingdom general election to become Prime Minister for the second time.

* April 27 – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, after whom Big Ben may be named ( b. 1802 )

* April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, U. S. politician ( b. 1757 )

* April 17 – Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman ( b. 1706 )

* April 30 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison ( d. 1948 )

* April 1 – Benjamin Mooers, U. S. soldier ( d. 1838 )

* April 15 – Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College ( d. 1893 )

* April 5 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence ( d. 1791 )

* April 4 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar ( d. 1783 )

* April 10 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar ( d. 1766 )

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.

Susan May Williams ( 2 April 1812-15 September 1881 ) was the daughter of Benjamin Williams, a prominent Baltimore merchant originally from Roxbury, Massachusetts, and his wife, Sarah Copeland, widow of Nathaniel Morton.

In response to the opening of the Erie Canal, which was in direct competition with the port of Baltimore, Benjamin Williams became one of the founders of the first railroad company in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, chartered on 24 April 1827.

Benjamin Harrison V ( April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791 ) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia.

Frantic efforts to save the WSGA group ensued and two days into the siege Governor Barber was able to telegraph President Benjamin Harrison a plea for help late on the night of April 12, 1892.

The county was established on April 30, 1803, less than two months after Ohio became a state, and was named after Benjamin Franklin.

On April 29, 1865, a messenger galloped in with news that General Benjamin H. Grierson, Commanding General of over 4, 000 Union cavalrymen, was approaching from Clayton, Alabama, to the west.