Benjamin Franklin, Printer Benjamin Franklin is unmistakably the most resplendent figure in American history. Starting out as an apprentice, Franklin was to become a renowned printer, a great statesman, and an innovator always trying to find ways to improve his community. But how could this peasant apprentice become such an influential man in a large-scale society such as Philadelphia? This was the question that baffled and worried many aristocrats of the early eighteenth century. For …showed first 75 words of 2536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2536 total…truly had a significant contribution to the well being of our nation today. Even though, Franklin was a very multi-talented individual the only thing he wanted inscribed on his tombstone was “Benjamin Franklin, printer”(Eiselen 416). For this was the key to advocating all of his ideas. I believe Franklin would be proud to know that he is still being printed everyday on the face of the United States highest circulating currency bill, the hundred-dollar bill.