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Horace Mann company history timeline

1945

Horace Mann was founded in 1945 by two Springfield, Illinois, teachers who saw a need for quality, affordable auto insurance for teachers.

1953

Louise Hall Tharp, Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (1953), is a popular treatment, well written and rich in background but sometimes casual in documentation.

1955

Foreword by W. Boyd Alexander. [Yellow Springs, Ohio]: Antioch College, 1955.

1961

In 1961, when the United States Congress created legislation for tax-deferred annuities, Horace Mann also ventured into the annuity market.

1965

------. On the crisis in education. [Yellow Springs, Ohio]: Antioch Press, 1965.

1972

Horace Mann has been headquartered in Springfield since its founding, occupying a two-square-block site between Seventh, Ninth, Jefferson and Washington streets since 1972.

Jonathan Messerli, Horace Mann (1972), is a perceptive and revealing biography, particularly informative on Mann's 12 years as secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education.

1974

In 1974, INA Corporation, an insurance and financial services company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, began to purchase more and more holdings of Horace Mann.

1977

White Oaks Mall opening day lineup (1977)

Tharp, Louise Hall, Until victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977. □

As the company's leader he guided Horace Mann through a management-led buyout and, later, an initial public offering. (Kardos, a graduate of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, joined Horace Mann in 1977.

1982

In 1982, INA Corporation merged with Connecticut General Corporation, forming a new holding company known as CIGNA.

1989

In August 1989, Horace Mann was acquired from CIGNA by an investor group that included company management.

Horace Mann had managed Allegiance Insurance Company since 1989.

1991

Kardos coordinated Horace Mann's initial public offering in 1991.

1994

Horace Mann had managed Allegiance Insurance Company since 1989. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as HMN. In January 1994, Horace Mann acquired Allegiance Insurance Company, a California property/casualty company.

1995

In 1995, Horace Mann was able to repurchase half of GGvA's interest in the company.

The company also expanded the size of its board of directors in 1995.

1997

In March 1997, Horace Mann accepted an Aon Group option program enabling the company to replace up to $100 million in equity in the event of a catastrophe.

Horace Mann also introduced new products for agents to sell in 1997.

2000

By the year 2000, the total educator market should reach 10 million.

Horace Mann expected a two percent growth in its target market by 2000, with an eight percent annual turnover in the teacher market.

2001

Allegiance Insurance Company changed its name to Horace Mann Property & Casualty Insurance Company effective March 19, 2001.

2006

Fallon, Daniel. "An Abbreviated History of Antioch College." Antioch College. http://www.antioch-college.edu/academics/plan/documents/App%20A%20History.pdf (accessed July 5, 2006).

2011

The six-story Horace Mann building, which was extensively rehabilitated in 2011-12, was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who also drew up the plans for the former World Trade Center in New York City.

2013

Marita Zuraitis has been the Director, President and CEO of the company since 2013.

2017

The busts of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant stood side by side in the colonnade until 2017, when the sculptures of Lee and Stonewall Jackson were removed in response to a growing movement to take down Confederate statues.

2021

"Mann, Horace ." American Social Reform Movements Reference Library. . Encyclopedia.com. (April 15, 2021). https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/mann-horace-0

In July 2021, Horace Mann announced the purchase of Madison National Life Insurance Co.

2022

In January 2022, Horace Mann announced it had acquired Madison National Life Insurance Company, Inc. - a provider of group life, disability and specialty health insurance for educators and public sector employees.

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