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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf
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About Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the "Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons", but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf.
Everything about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet →- Occupation
- educator, teacher, Christian minister, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 10, 1787, 1787
- Died
- September 10, 1851, 1851