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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.
Learn about the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and a prominent Democratic-Republican journalist. Discover how he used his newspaper, the "Philadelphia Aurora", to criticize the Federalist government and advocate for press freedoms.
1 de ene. de 2009 · Learn about the life and career of Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of the founder and a controversial editor of the American Aurora. He was arrested for libeling President Adams under the Sedition Act of 1798 and died of yellow fever.
Learn about Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and a leading critic of the Federalist government in the 1790s. Explore his life, education, newspaper, and republican ideals through this student research project.
7 de jun. de 2017 · Benjamin Bache was the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the founder of the influential Aurora newspaper. He opposed the Washington and Adams administrations and supported Jefferson, and was indicted for seditious libel in 1798.
Between the turbulent years of 1793 and 1798, Bache was the young nation's leading political journalist and a sharp critic of the Federalists and their policies. As editor of the most important radical newspaper of the 1790s, he lived at the center of most of the political storms of that decade.
