Largely self-educated, he attended Brown and later Litchfield Law School and finished his life as the president of Ohio's Antioch College where he attempted to implement the plans he had made as secretary of Massachusetts' state board of education.  
He took over John Quincy Adams' congressional seat in 1848.  As a Massachusetts senator he led a movement to establish a state hospital for the insane at Worcester, the first of its kind in the country.  Largely self-educated, he attended Brown and later Litchfield Law School and finished his life as the president of Ohio's Antioch College where he attempted to implement the plans he had made as secretary of Massachusetts' state board of education.  For 10 points name this founder of the Common School Journal, the "father of American education".
He took over John Quincy Adams' congressional seat in 1848.  
Horace Mann