Superintendent of Common Schools from 1866 through 1881 and later the United States Minister to Denmark. As superintendent of Common Schools, Wickersham made recommendations on both curriculum and methods of instruction. Before his appointment as superintendent, he had wide experience in teaching and supervising

, let our cities, counties and institutions of learning, begin to bestir themselves 22 Wickersham read a paper at the National Department of Superintendence in 1875 and attempted to arouse educators from other states and the United States Office of Education to exert themselves on behalf of American