Horace Mann
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Horace Mann was an American educational reformer, abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education; he is thus also known as The Father of American Education. In
Mann, c. 1851
Original daguerreotype of Rep. Mann (Mass.) from Mathew Brady's studio, c. 1849
Mann on a 1940 stamp from the Famous Americans series
Statue of Horace Mann (1863) by Emma Stebbins
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; minister to Great Brit
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…schools over the 19th century. In the spring of 1848, he was elected to the United States Congress as a Whig to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Quincy Adams. His first speech in that role was in advocacy of its right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories, and in a letter, in December of that year…
Daguerreotype, c. 1843–1848
John Quincy Adams, age 29 by John Singleton Copley
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1821-26
1815 US passport issued by John Quincy Adams at London