PRINTER'S NO. 8
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
26
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY ISAACSON, YOUNGBLOOD, DONATUCCI, NEILSON,
BIZZARRO, BROWN, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CONKLIN,
EVERETT, FREEMAN, HILL-EVANS, KINSEY, KORTZ, LONGIETTI,
MACKENZIE, MENTZER, MILLARD, MURT, PASHINSKI, READSHAW, RYAN,
SAMUELSON, SANCHEZ, SAPPEY, SCHLOSSBERG, SCHMITT, SONNEY,
STAATS, TOEPEL, VITALI AND MARKOSEK, JANUARY 11, 2019
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 11, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing January 17, 2019, as the birthday of Benjamin
Franklin.
WHEREAS, Benjamin Franklin was born to humble means in 1706
in Boston, Massachusetts, where he would assist his father's
business and apprentice under his brother as a printer; and
WHEREAS, At 17 years of age, Franklin ran away to
Philadelphia where, through an undying self-determination, he
would quickly become the most prominent master printer in the
American colonies, figuratively and literally representing the
phrase "rags to riches"; and
WHEREAS, Driven by a sense of public duty and interest in
improving the human condition, Franklin was instrumental in the
improvement of the lighting and paving of Philadelphia and in
the organization of a police force, fire companies, the
Pennsylvania Hospital and the Library Company of Philadelphia,
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