Teacher Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Living place: Pennsylvania

Birthday: 10-12-1787

Global rank: #75675

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Who is Teacher Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
Educational pioneer who co-founded, along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, what is now known as the American School for the Deaf, the first instutition for deaf education in North America. He was also the school's first principal.
Twenty percent postage stamps were issued by the United States Postal Service in his honor in June 1983.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned his master's degree from Yale University in 1808. He later became a pastor after graduating from the Andover Theological Seminary.

Family life info

His wife, Sophia Fowler, is a former student of his. They had eight children together, including Edward Miner Gallaudet, who founded what would become Gallaudet College, the first university for the deaf.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Teacher Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
He was inspired to pursue deaf education after meeting a nine-year-old Alice Cogswell.

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When was Teacher Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet born?
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born in 10-12-1787, death year is , at the age of 237.
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born in Pennsylvania, . is a Teacher, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's global rank is 75675 and whose rank is 163 in list of famous Teacher.
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Birthday Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (10-12) in history

  • Day 10-12 year 1817: Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.
  • Day 10-12 year 1869: The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.
  • Day 10-12 year 1901: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
  • Day 10-12 year 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
  • Day 10-12 year 1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Day 10-12 year 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Day 10-12 year 1999: Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with stealing classified information.
  • Day 10-12 year 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
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