Ben Franklin — True Father of the United States or Just a Gigolo?
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4 min readJan 14, 2022
Ben Franklin’s birthday is in January. It is on the 17th to be exact. For someone SO pivotal to the creation of our nation he is surprisingly under-represented in American daily life. There is no celebration of his birthday or states or capitals named after him. His greatness is only memorialized by his appearance on the beloved C-note.