It is difficult to overstate the many accomplishments Benjamin Franklin achieved in his long and storied life. He was, among many other things, a statesman, writer, printer, inventor, humorist, publisher, scientist, postmaster, an American diplomat and, of course, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was in poor health when he attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and this speech, delivered on the final day of the convention, would be one of his last public statements. He would die three years later.