Mgbe ọ laghachiri n'ụlọ na 1785, Franklin nọ n'ọnọdụ nke abụọ na nke George Washington dị ka onye mmeri nke nnwere onwe America. Le Ray kwanyeere ya ugwu site na eserese nke Joseph Duplessis sere, nke a na-atụgharị ugbu a na National Portrait Gallery nke Smithsonian Institution na Washington, DC. Mgbe ọ laghachiri, Franklin ghọrọ onye na-ewepụ ohu ma tọhapụ ndị ohu ya abụọ. N'ikpeazụ, ọ ghọrọ onye isi oche nke Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Na 1787, Franklin jere ozi dị ka onye nnọchiteanya na Mgbakọ Philadelphia. O nwere ọnọdụ nsọpụrụ ma na-adịkarịghị arụrịta ụka. Ọ bụ naanị Nna Nna bụ onye na-edebanye aka na isi akwụkwọ anọ nke United States: Nkwupụta nke Nnwere onwe, Nkwekọrịta nke Alliance na France, Nkwekọrịta nke Paris na Ajụjụ: Mgbe Franklin laghachiri n'ụlọ?
1785 afọ