John Ward Studebaker
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1887 – 1989
Who was John Ward Studebaker?
John Ward Studebaker served as U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1934 to 1948. He was also Chairman of the U.S. Radio Education Committee. His was the longest tenure of any education commissioner, and he devoted much of his time to children's literacy and arithmetic.
Studebaker was born in Iowa and grew up in McGregor, Iowa. Although he was small in stature and had lost his right eye in an accident at the age of 12, he was a "star all-round high school and college athlete" who was the quarterback of his high school and college football teams, as well as playing baseball and basketball in college. He attended Leander Clark College in Toledo, Iowa, paying his way through school by working as a bricklayer.
After college, he served as principal of a public school, and in 1914 became assistant superintendent of schools in Des Moines, Iowa. During World War I he took a leave of absence from that position to become national director of the Junior Red Cross and to undertake graduate study at Columbia University, where he was awarded a master's degree in 1920. Returning to Des Moines, in 1920 he became the city's school superintendent.
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- Born
- Jun 10, 1887
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Columbia University
- Leander Clark College
- Died
- Jul 26, 1989
Walnut Creek
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on July 23, 2013
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