Horace Mann
American politician (1796-1859)
Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an educator and politician who helped set up the first public schools in the United States. He did this in the state of Massachusetts. Mann personally visited every school in the state to inspect it. He later became the first president of Antioch College in Ohio. “Our means of education,” he stated, “are the grand machinery by which the ‘raw material’ of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers.”
Horace Mann | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 8th district | |
| In office April 3, 1848 – March 3, 1853 | |
| Preceded by | John Quincy Adams |
| Succeeded by | Tappan Wentworth |
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| Born | May 4, 1796 Franklin, Massachusetts |
| Died | August 2, 1859 (aged 63) Yellow Springs, Ohio |
| Resting place | North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island |
| Political party | Whig Free Soil |
| Spouse(s) | Charlotte Messer Mann (d. 1832) Mary Peabody Mann |
| Relations | Thomas Mann (father) Rebecca Stanley Mann (mother) Stephen Mann (Brother) Louise Mann (Sister) |
| Children | Horace Mann Jr. George Combe Mann Benjamin Pickman Mann |
| Alma mater | Brown University Litchfield Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer Educator College president |
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