Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p John Davis Pierce (February 18, 1797 – April 5, 1882) was a Congregationalist minister, public schools advocate, and Michigan legislator. He was Michigan's first superintendent of public schools, a position new to the United States, where he established Michigan's public school system. His work has been compared to that of Horace Mann's.Before his public service career, he attended Brown University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and became an ordained minister of the Congregational Church.. }
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- John_Davis_Pierce comment "John Davis Pierce (February 18, 1797 – April 5, 1882) was a Congregationalist minister, public schools advocate, and Michigan legislator. He was Michigan's first superintendent of public schools, a position new to the United States, where he established Michigan's public school system. His work has been compared to that of Horace Mann's.Before his public service career, he attended Brown University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and became an ordained minister of the Congregational Church.".