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At peak enrollment in 1947, veterans made up 49% of faculty admissions and by the time the original G.I. Bill led to 1956, 7.8 million World War II veterans—nearly half of the 16 million who served—had participated in education or training. President Andrew Johnson in 1867 established the first Department of Education, a predecessor to the Cabinet-level agency that emerged more than a century later. In response to issues in regards to the department’s influence over local schools, it was scaled back to the smaller Office of Education the next yr. Well into the nineteenth century, it was up to …