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Laurent Clerc

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a deaf teacher and co-founder, with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, of the first school for the deaf in North America, the Hartford Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (now the American School for the Deaf), the oldest existing school for the deaf in North America.

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