Thomas D. Bailey

[3] His education started in the public schools of South Carolina, and he got his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 from Wofford College in Spartanburg.

Shealy Jr.[3] Bailey is credited with a handbook on Florida public school bus transportation.

[6] He also causes controversy by planning to increase religious training within public schools even though he claimed that it was not his intention to go against "the traditional separation of church and state".

[8] He is pictured in 1951 along with a plaque showing his motto "No man stands so straight as he who stoops to help a child.".

[2] At the time of his death it was noted that he had served as the Florida Superintendent of Education for longer than any other person in the role.