WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Benjamin Franklin
    n 1: printer whose success as an author led him to take up
         politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence
         and the Constitution; he played a major role in the
         American Revolution and negotiated French support for the
         colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for
         his research in electricity (1706-1790) [syn: Franklin,
         Benjamin Franklin]