Samuel M. Brownell

(1900-1990) born in Peru, Nemaha County, lived in Lincoln. Educator who for 50 years was a teacher, school administrator, government official, and advocate for American education, U.S. Commissioner of Education, superintendent of Detroit Public Schools. Consult Current Biography (1954) 123-125 and New York Times obituary, October 14, 1990, p. 34.

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