Benjamin Franklin's Final Edition
Benjamin Franklin died at home in Philadelphia on April 17, 1790, at 84 — and some 20,000 mourners turned out for the printer who had helped invent a nation.
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A Post Office Before There Was a Country
On July 26, 1775 — a full year before the Declaration of Independence — the Continental Congress created America's postal service and made Benjamin Franklin its first postmaster general.