Agnes Samuelson

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Agnes Mathilda Samuelson (April 14, 1887 May 12, 1963) was an American educator and a state superintendent in public schools. She worked to provide equal education for all students in Iowa. She was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1976 and a Des Moines elementary school was named after her.

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1. date of birth: 1887-04-14 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of death: 1963-05-12 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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