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1. Benjamin Franklin

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   Franklin’s political career began with his election to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1736, a position he held intermittently for nearly two decades. He served as the colony's Postmaster General from 1737 to 1753, significantly improving the speed and reliability of intercolonial mail service, which he viewed as crucial infrastructure for unified colonial discourse.
   In 1754, at the Albany Congress, Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union, which sought to create a unified colonial government to manage defense against the French du…