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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsHorace MANN
(1796-1859)
MANN, Horace, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Franklin, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 4, 1796; attended the public schools and
prepared for college under a private teacher; was graduated from
Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1819; tutored there
1819-1821; studied law in Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Dedham, Mass., in 1823; member of the
State house of representatives 1827-1833; moved to Boston in 1833;
commissioner for the revision of the Massachusetts statutes in
1835; member of the State senate 1833-1837 and served as president
1835-1837; secretary of the State board of education 1837-1848 and
in this position reorganized the public-school system; elected as a
Whig to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John Quincy Adams; reelected as a Whig to the Thirty-first
Congress and as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-second
Congress, and served from April 3, 1848, to March 3, 1853; declined
to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; declined the nomination
for Governor in 1852 to accept the position of president of Antioch
College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and served in that position from
1852 until his death at Yellow Springs, Ohio, August 2, 1859;
interment in North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
Bibliography
Cassara, Ernest. “Reformer as Politician: Horace Mann and the
Anti-Slavery Struggle in Congress, 1848-1853.” Journal of
American Studies 5 (December 1971): 247-64; Messerli, Jonathan.
Horace Mann: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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