John Clark Dore

John Clark Dore (March 22, 1822 – December 14, 1900) was an American educator and politician from New Hampshire. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dore briefly taught in Boston, Massachusetts before he was recruited to come to Chicago, Illinois to serve as its first superintendent of school. Dore was also a successful merchant, serving as the vice president of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1868, where he helped to establish the Illinois Humane Society.

Early life and early career John Clark Dore was born in Ossipee, New Hampshire, on March 22, 1822. He was first authorized to teach when he was seventeen. He matriculated at Dartmouth College when he was twenty-one, graduating in 1847. Dore was then named an assistant teacher in a public school in Boston, Massachusetts. He was first taught, and was later made school principal of the Boylston School, He officially entered office in June 1854. He unsuccessfully opposed the Lake-Front Bill of 1869, through which the State of Illinois gave the land rights of the outer harbor of the city of Chicago to the Illinois Central Railroad Company. The John C. Dore Elementary School in Chicago today bears his name.