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Hello.

I want to create a new timeline where Benjamin Franklin was the first President.

When i started i noticed several problems with this scenario.

First: He is too damn old ;) Nearing 90 years when Washington was first elected.

Second: Even so he would only be a one-term president. And the war against the british had to end many years before the original period. I tried to study Cornwallis and reason why the british maybe would end the war earlier, but had no luck.

Could anyone give me some suggestions to a good point of divergence?
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