What is Horace Mann?
{{Infobox congressman | honorific-prefix = | name = Horace Mann | honorific-suffix = | image = File:Horace Mann - Daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes, c1850.jpg | caption = | alt = | state1 = [[Massachusetts]] | district1 = {{ushr|MA|8|8th}} | term_start1 = April 3, 1848 | term_end1 = March 3, 1853 | predecessor1 = [[John Quincy Adams]] | successor1 = [[Tappan Wentworth]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1796|5|4}} | birth_place = [[Franklin, Massachusetts]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1859|8|2|1796|5|4}} | death_place = [[Yellow Springs, Ohio]] | resting_place = [[North Burial Ground]],<br>[[Providence, Rhode Island]] | spouse = Charlotte Messer Mann (d. 1832)<br />Mary Peabody Mann | party = [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]<br>[[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]] | relations =Thomas Mann (father)<br />Rebecca Stanley Mann (mother)<br>Stephen Mann (Brother)<br />Louise Mann (Sister) | children =Horace Mann Jr.<br />George Combe Mann<br />Benjamin Pickman Mann | residence = | alma_mater = [[Brown University]]<br>[[Litchfield Law School]] | occupation = Lawyer<br>Educator<br>College president | profession = | religion = | signature = Appletons' Mann Horace signature.jpg | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Horace Mann''' (1796-1859) was an educator and politician who helped set up the first [[public school]]s 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.” {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Horace}} [[Category:1796 births]] [[Category:1859 deaths]] [[Category:Learning]] [[Category:19th-century American politicians]]