He was the first Postmaster of the colonies. He was actually appointed by the British government but lost his job when Parliament blamed him for the Boston Tea Party. This helped him realize that the...
Franklin did not go to college. He was self-taught, apprenticed as a printer. Later in life he received Honorary Doctor of Laws from the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford."
Benjamin Franklin may have been the first to report this effect. A line in his Autobiography states:
"He that has once done you a Kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you...