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'''Michel Domingue''' (July 28, 1813 – May 24, 1877) served as the President of [[Haiti]] from 14 June 1874 to 15 April 1876.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="webster">{{cite web |title=Michel Domingue |url=http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/leaders/domingue.htm |website=Bob Corbett's Home Page |publisher=Bob Corbett |access-date=19 December 2020 |ref=webster}}</ref> |
'''Michel Domingue''' (July 28, 1813{{fact}} – May 24, 1877) served as the President of [[Haiti]] from 14 June 1874 to 15 April 1876.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="webster">{{cite web |title=Michel Domingue |url=http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/leaders/domingue.htm |website=Bob Corbett's Home Page |publisher=Bob Corbett |access-date=19 December 2020 |ref=webster}}</ref> |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
Revision as of 09:07, 6 February 2023
Michel Domingue | |
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11th President of Haiti | |
In office 14 June 1874 – 15 April 1876 | |
Preceded by | Council of Secretaries of State |
Succeeded by | Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal |
Vice-President of the Provisional Government of Haiti | |
In office 27 December 1869 – 16 March 1870 | |
President | Nissage Saget |
Personal details | |
Born | citation needed] Les Cayes, Haiti[citation needed] | 28 July 1813[
Died | 24 May 1877 Kingston, British Jamaica | (aged 63)
Spouse | Pauline Strattman |
Profession | Military |
Michel Domingue (July 28, 1813[citation needed] – May 24, 1877) served as the President of Haiti from 14 June 1874 to 15 April 1876.[1][2]
Biography
Michel Domingue was born in Les Cayes in 1813.[citation needed] He graduated from military training and became commander of army units in Sud.[citation needed]
From 8 May 1868 to December 1869, he was president of the autonomous states of the south of Haiti.[citation needed] On 11 June 1874, General Domingue was elected for a term of eight years as president of Haiti.[1]
Domingue, who was primarily a soldier, had neither the stature nor the tact of a statesman.[1] He therefore issued a decree on 10 September 1874 appointing Septimus Rameau to manage public functions as the Vice-President of the Council of Secretaries of State.[1] Septimus Rameau thus became the true ruler of Haiti.[1] Rameau was dictatorial and domineering by nature, while Michel Domingue was more of a figurehead.[1]
One of Domingue's first acts after his election to the presidency was the signing of an agreement with the Dominican Republic, which the Haitian congress refused to ratify.[1] The agreement established the countries' mutual recognition and in particular an end to the long and bloody border war between them.[1] Septimus Rameau also led negotiations with the President of the Dominican Republic Ignacio María González.[1] The Chief of Staff of President Domingue, General N. Léger, was sent to Santo Domingo to prepare a new agreement.[1] Upon his return to Port-au-Prince on 9 November 1874, he was accompanied by Dominican negotiators to seal a treaty of friendship and an accord on trade and navigation.[1] Haiti recognized and accepted the full independence of the Dominican Republic, and on 20 January 1875 the treaty of friendship was signed between the two countries.[1]
Despite this success in international politics, Haiti's domestic financial situation was devastating.[1] Domingue tried to negotiate a loan with France, which would strain Haitian finances for years.[1] Finally, corruption and fraud were so great that Domingue issued a decree, dated 15 May 1875, for the arrest of Generals Brice, Pierre Monplaisir Pierre, and Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal, his political opponent.[1] Boisrond-Canal criticized this financial policy and the loan.[citation needed] He took refuge at the embassy of the United States, causing a diplomatic crisis between Haiti and the United States.[1] Brice and Pierre Monplaisir Pierre were killed[1] while Boisrond-Canal and other opponents fled abroad.[citation needed] Septimus Rameau was accused of being responsible for the deaths of the two generals, as well as the proposed loan with France.[1] He was himself assassinated on a street in Port-au-Prince.[1]
Domingue resigned on 15 April 1876 and went into exile in Kingston, Jamaica, where he died a year later.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Léger, Jacques Nicolas (1907). Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors. Neale Publishing Company. pp. 223–226. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Michel Domingue". Bob Corbett's Home Page. Bob Corbett. Retrieved 19 December 2020.