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| order = 24th
| office =[[List of heads of state of Haiti|24th]] [[President of Haiti]]
| term_start =25 February 1915
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| birth_name =Jean Simon Guillaume
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| birth_place =[[Ouanaminthe]], [[Republic of Haiti (1859–1957)|Haiti]]
| death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|1915|7|28|1859|3|4}}
| death_place =[[Port-au-Prince]], Haiti
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'''Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam''' ({{IPA-|fr|ʒɑ̃ vilbʁœ̃ ɡijom sam}}; 4 March 1859 – 28 July 1915) was [[List of Presidents of Haïti|President]] of [[Haiti]] from 4 March 1915 until his assassination months later. He was the [https://www.geni.com/people/Jean-Vilbrun-Guillaume-Sam-Pr%C3%A9sident-d-Haiti/6000000000497713097 son of] [[Tirésias Simon Sam]], Haiti's president from 1896 to 1902.
 
==Career==
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For the next two weeks, the country was in chaos. News of the murder soon reached the [[United States Navy|American Navy]] ships anchored in the city's harbor. President [[Woodrow Wilson]], who was wary about the turn of events in Haiti, and especially the possibility that Bobo would take power, [[United States occupation of Haiti|ordered American troops to seize the capital]]. They landed on 28 July 1915, and continued to occupy the country for nineteen years, until August 1934.
 
Sam's chief of police, [[Charles Oscar Etienne (Chaloska)|Charles Oscar Étienne]], who cleaned out the jails by executing his political opponents, inspired the boogeymen Haitian carnival disguises known as "Chaloska".{{cn|date=June 2022}}
 
==In literature and the arts==
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