Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This person lost an Assembly seat for criticizing the Paxton Boys Affair, which prompted him to go on a diplomatic mission. During this mission on behalf of his adoptive home colony, he became the representative of Georgia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, beginning to bring about the unification proposed in his failed Albany Plan of Union. Also the first Postmaster General of the United States, this was, for ten points, what founding father associated with the lightning rod and Poor Richards Almanac
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History