Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (born 1787)

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

American educator (1787–1851)

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…