Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers, a contributor to the Declaration of Independence, an inventor and an entrepreneur. He was a diplomat, too. As one of the American delegates, he negotiated the Treaty of Paris of 1783 that brought peace between England and the 13 colonies of the United States of America, putting and end to the Revolutionary War.
In 1776, he was part of the five-member committee that helped draft the Declaration of Independence, in which the 13 American colonies declared their freedom from British rule. That same year, Congress sent Franklin to France to enlist that nation's help with the Revolutionary War
