Person:Horace Mann (3)

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Horace Mann
b.4 May 1796 Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.2 Aug 1859 Yellow Springs, Greene, Ohio, United States
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  1. Horace Mann1796 - 1859
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Name Horace Mann
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 May 1796 Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage to Mary Tyler Peabody
Death[1] 2 Aug 1859 Yellow Springs, Greene, Ohio, United States
Burial[1] North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Horace Mann (May 4, 1796August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853). From September 1852 to his death, he served as President of Antioch College.

About Mann's intellectual progressivism, the historian Ellwood P. Cubberley said:


Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn unruly American children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, especially in the Whig Party, for building public schools. Most U.S. states adopted a version of the system Mann established in Massachusetts, especially the program for normal schools to train professional teachers. Educational historians credit Horace Mann, along with Henry Barnard and Catharine Beecher as one of the major advocates of the Common School Movement.

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