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  2. Mar 20, 2024 · Franklin spent the next nine years in Paris as America’s first foreign ambassador. Without Franklin’s celebrity status, savvy networking abilities and unapologetic Francophilia, the American ...

  3. Nov 13, 2009 · On October 26, 1776, exactly one month to the day after being named an agent of a diplomatic commission by the Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin sets sail from Philadelphia for...

  4. On October 26, 1776, Franklin was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. [128] He took with him as secretary his 16-year-old grandson, William Temple Franklin. They lived in a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, donated by Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, who supported the United States. Franklin remained in France ...

  5. Oct 26, 2017 · On Feb. 6, 1778, in the wake of the Battle of Saratoga, representatives of the U.S. and France, including Franklin, signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance.

  6. On October 27, 1776 Benjamin Franklin was selected as an agent to the Second Continental Congress in France. He was accompanied by his two grandsons, 17 year old William Temple Franklin, son of Governor William Franklin of New Jersey; and Sally’s oldest son, 17 year old Benjamin Franklin Bache.

  7. The Treaties were signed on February 6, 1778 after which Franklin was elected minister plenipotentiary to France and the sole representative of America in France. First ambassador of the United States. Benjamin Franklin was the first American ambassador received by a foreign government.

  8. Dec 17, 2015 · Instead, Franklin stayed in France until 1785 in a critical role as one of America’s first significant diplomats. The French opened Franklin with open arms, and he became a pop culture icon. Images of Franklin, wearing a fur cap instead of a wig, were commonplace.