1. Agnes Mathilda Samuelson was an American educator and a state superintendent in public schools.
14 Facts About Agnes Samuelson
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Agnes Samuelson worked to provide equal education for all students in Iowa.
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Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1976 and a Des Moines elementary school was named after her.
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Agnes Samuelson graduated from high school in 1904 with a dream to be a teacher because she had experience helping Swedish immigrants learn American customs and language.
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From 1911 to 1913, Agnes Samuelson continued her education at the University of Nebraska and later became superintendent of public schools in Yorktown, Iowa, in 1913.
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Agnes Samuelson provided rural schools with more new curricular education during that time, ensured that schoolbooks were available countywide, and helped advance teachers by starting summer schools and institutes.
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Agnes Samuelson became an extension professor of rural education in 1923 at the Iowa State Teachers College and continued to help rural children receive equal education while in that position.
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Agnes Samuelson attended the State University of Iowa, receiving a B A in 1925 and a M A in 1928.
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In 1926, while Samuelson was a student and an extension professor, she ran for State Superintendent of Public Instruction and won the Republican nomination against May E Francis.
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Agnes Samuelson left the association in 1945 to travel to the headquarters of the National Education Association in Washington, DC, so that she could become assistant editor of the organization's journal and to become the associate director of American Education Week.
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Agnes Samuelson retired in 1952 and moved back to Iowa to live in Des Moines.
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Agnes Samuelson died on May 12,1963, in Des Moines, Iowa, from cancer after being ill for over a year.
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Agnes Samuelson ensured that all Iowa children would receive equal education regardless of their property wealth in their home school district.
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In 1976, Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.