List of Famous people with last name Gallaudet

Edward Miner Gallaudet

First Name Edward

Last Name Gallaudet

Born on February 5, 1837

Died on September 26, 1917 (aged 80)

Born in United States of America, Connecticut

Edward Miner Gallaudet, son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, was the first president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. from 1864 to 1910.

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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

First Name Thomas

Last Name Gallaudet

Died on September 10, 1851

Born in United States of America, Pennsylvania

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.

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