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December 19, 1732

Poor Richard's Almanack

Benjamin Franklin was a statesman, an inventor, a patriot and a founding father of the United States. He was also the author and publisher of Poor Richard's Almanack. Franklin took on the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for his publication, which he first published on December 19th, 1732 and ran for the next 25 years to 1758. Editions each year reached as many as 10,000 copies, a very high number in colonial times. The Almanack stands today as an iconic publication in American Literature.


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