Commissioner of Education
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The Commissioner of Education was the title given to the person who served at the head of the National Bureau of Education, a former unit within the Department of the Interior in the United States. The position was created on March 2, 1867 when an Act to establish a Department of Education took effect.
List of Commissioners of Education
- Henry Barnard - (1867-70)
- John Eaton - (1870-86)
- Nathaniel H. R. Dawson - (1886-89))
- William T. Harris - (1889-1906)
- Elmer E. Brown - (1906-11)
- Philander P. Claxton - (1911-21)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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