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William Temple Franklin

1760–1823

American diplomat. Aide to his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, 1776–85; secretary to the American delegation negotiating the Treaty of Versailles, 1782–3. As Benjamin Franklin’s literary executor, edited a three-volume set of his grandfather’s memoirs.

Source

William Temple Franklin Papers, American Philosophical Library, www.amphilsoc.org/collections (accessed 13 February 2020)

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