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Benjamin Franklin Bache (August 12, 1769 – September 10, 1798) was an American journalist, printer and publisher. He founded the Philadelphia Aurora , a newspaper that supported Jeffersonian philosophy.
Benjamin Franklin Bache was the printer and publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora, a leading Democratic-Republican newspaper in the 1790s. During his short life, Bache became a vocal critic of the early Federalist Party and George Washington’s administration.
Benjamin Franklin Bache, born on August 12, 1769, carried the legacy of one of America's most iconic statesmen, being the direct grandson of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin. Born to Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, he was thrust into a lineage of intellectual prominence and civic duty.
Born on 12 August 1769, Bache was soon taken under the mentorship of his famous grandfather, Benjamin Franklin. In 1776, when Franklin went on a nine-year diplomatic mission to France, he took the seven-year-old Bache with him so that the child would get an enlightened education.
Jun 7, 2017 · Benjamin Franklin Bache was the founder and editor of the Aurora. Courtesy of American Philosophical Society, Bache Papers, Castle Collection. As founder of the Aurora newspaper, Benjamin Bache was a vocal opponent of the Washington and Adams administrations, and outspoken supporter of Jefferson.
“Much Blood May be Shed Ere Liberty be Firmly Established”: Benjamin Franklin Bache Defends the French Revolution, 1792–93 Americans keenly followed the events of the French Revolution. Reactions to the growing violence and social upheaval split along emerging party lines—Federalists expressed horror while Democratic Republicans were ...
Major international interactive exhibition and Philadelphia city-wide celebration honoring genius and wit of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin on his three-hundred-year birthday anniversary.
