Michel Domingue | |
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| President of Haiti | |
| In office 14 June 1874 – 15 April 1876 | |
| Vice President | Septimus Rameau |
| 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 | 28 July 1813[
citation needed] Les Cayes, Haiti[ citation needed] |
| Died | 24 May 1877 (aged 63) Kingston, British Jamaica |
| Spouse | Pauline Strattman |
| Profession | Military |
Michel Domingue (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl dɔmɛ̃ɡ]; 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] He was appointed Vice President of the provisional government of Nissage Saget in 1869. [3] 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]
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Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors. Neale Publishing Company. pp. 223–226.
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public domain.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) - ^ "Michel Domingue". Bob Corbett's Home Page. Bob Corbett. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ "The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs: Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry". D. Appleton & Company. 1870.
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