Benjamin Franklin, a renown individual from the premature American history, who was both a publisher, an author, scientist as well as a diplomat is known to be among the few founding fathers of the United States of America. Born in 1706, Franklin led a leader life where he attained a state of admiration from whoever got to know him. He was the only American founding father who got to have his signature on the major United States establishing documents such as; the constitution, the declaration of self-government, the treaty of Paris as well as the French alliance treaty (Franklin 2007 P xxiii). This essay highlights the significance of Benjamin Franklin as America’s leading founding father and his relevance to the extent he is referred as the 18^th-century creature following his contributions to what became the enlightening of the modern world, opposition on gender discrimination as well as the fight for peace and freedom of the oppressed.

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