A popular legend says that Benjamin Franklin advocated for the turkey to be the national bird instead of the bald eagle. This is not the whole story, according to the Franklin Institute.

The bald eagle is featured on American military insignia ... though it received some pushback: Benjamin Franklin once called ...

While the bald eagle has been an iconic representation of the United States for more than two centuries, national founding-father Benjamin Franklin preferred another bird. Franklin considered the ...

perhaps due to at least one of the Founding Fathers opposing the bald eagle as a U.S. symbol. Benjamin Franklin had clashed with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson over which bird should be included ...

The bald eagle is now officially the national ... always agreed about the national status of the bald eagle. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin objected to the creature being chosen to represent ...

Franklin was reportedly against the decision, arguing in a letter to his daughter that the bald eagle was “a bird of bad moral character.” On Tuesday, Joe Biden also established the first ...

By Sara Ruberg The bald eagle received a title this week that ... Seal” of the United States since 1782, much to Benjamin Franklin’s ire because he deemed it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” ...