Benjamin Franklin is amazing in so many different ways there should be a word used only to describe him.  Franklinawesometastic.  Besides being a founding father, he’s also the prototypical self-made man.  He may have even been the wealthiest American at one point in history. His biography on Wikipedia is a good starting point. The Walter Isaacson biography is an excellent resource if you want to delve further into this Franklinawesometastic personality. Ben Franklin