Louis Laurent Marie Clerc ( 26 December 1785 - 18 July 1869 ) was called `` The Apostle of the Deaf in America '' by generations of American deaf people .
Laurent Clerc ( born Louis Laurent Marie Clerc December 26 , 1785 in France - July 18 , 1869 ) co-founded the first school for the deaf ( people who can not hear ) in the United States .