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Gallery of Diplomas Collection
Gallery of Diplomas – Barack Obama
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The following are diplomas granted to Gallaudet University graduate and undergraduate students and signed by United States President Barack Obama, who was inaugurated in January of 2009.
Diplomas were also signed by Gallaudet University President Robert R. Davila, ’53, who was president from 2007 until 2009. President T. Alan Hurwitz became president in January 2010.
U.S. President
Gallaudet Presidents
Barack Obama
2009-2016
Robert R. Davila, ’53
2007-2009
T. Alan Hurwitz
2010-2015
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Jeremiah Reginald Sammons
Bachelor of Arts
summa cum laude
May 2013
Gallaudet University would like to thank Jeremiah Sammons, ’13, for generously donating his diploma to the University Archives.
In 1864, Congress passed a bill authorizing the institution, known as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, to establish the National College for the Deaf and Dumb which would provide college-level instruction and confer college degrees. On...
Resource Type: History