PRINTER'S NO. 3224
No. 257 Session of 1976
INTRODUCED BY IRVIS, MAY 18, 1976
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, MAY 18, 1976
In the House of Representatives, May 18,1976
1 WHEREAS, The late Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia, is
2 widely regarded throughout the world as "the most famous
3 American"; and
4 WHEREAS, For most of his public life he was associated with
5 this General Assembly, as Clerk, Assemblyman, Speaker and its
6 representative in England; and
7 WHEREAS, He was appointed by this General Assembly to the
8 Second Continental Congress and named to a committee instructed
9 to draft a Declaration of Independence; and
10 WHEREAS, He was a signatory to the said Declaration of
11 Independence in 1776 when he was seventy years of age; and
12 WHEREAS, Eleven years later, after representing the United
13 States in France and serving as President of Pennsylvania, he
14 was chosen as a member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the
15 Constitutional Convention in 1787, and signed the proposed
16 Constitution of the United States in his eighty-first year; and
17 WHEREAS, He made numerous contributions in many fields which
18 benefited his fellowmen, and has endeared himself to posterity
1 for his warmth, wit and common sense; therefore be it
2 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives (the Senate
3 concurring) do, on the occasion of the Bicentennial of American
4 Independence, and in the 294th year of the General Assembly,
5 record its pride in its most illustrious member, and commends
6 Ben Franklin to all Pennsylvanians as an example that at every
7 stage of one's life a person can do something to make his State
8 and Nation better for the generations yet to come; and be it
9 further
10 RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to the
11 Franklin Institute, which is the Benjamin Franklin National
12 Memorial.
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