Jean-Pierre Boyer

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Jean-Pierre Boyer

Jean-Pierre Boyer (born February 28, 1776 in Port-au-Prince , Saint-Domingue , † July 9, 1850 in Paris ) was President of the Republic of Haiti from 1818 to 1843 .

Life

Born as a mulatto in Port-au-Prince in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue on Hispaniola , Boyer acquired a European education in France and joined the Republican military in 1792 . Soon promoted to battalion chief, he took part in the undertakings of General André Rigaud during the invasion of the English on San Domingo . Later he fought again under Rigaud against François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture , but had to leave the island with Rigaud and seek refuge in France. He returned to Haiti in 1802 with the expedition of General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc . Here he initially fought against Toussaint again, but soon supported the union of blacks and mulattos in the Haitian struggle for freedom.

After Jean-Jacques Dessalines ' accession to the throne, Boyer took the lead with Alexandre Sabès Pétion . Both helped General Henri Christophe to overthrow the Despots Dessalines in 1806. But they left Christophe when Christophe himself strived for rule. Pétion founded an independent republic in the southwestern part of the island, but Boyer received the command of the capital Port-au-Prince and the dignity of major general. Victorious against the troops of Christopher, who had converted the Republic of the Blacks into a Kingdom of Haiti in northern Haiti and when Henri I ruled there, he was recommended to the people as successor by the dying Pétion on March 29, 1818 and elected President of the Republic.

Boyer put the state's finances in order, improved the administration, and favored the arts and sciences. After the suicide of Henri I in 1820, he united his mulatto-dominated republic with the predominantly black-dominated republic in the north, in 1821 he also took possession of the eastern area that had remained Spanish and in 1825 procured the young state's declaration of independence from France. Elected president for life, he was at the head of the republic for over 15 years, amid ongoing disputes with the House of Representatives. In the spring of 1842, Haiti was struck by a terrible earthquake that almost destroyed some cities. Boyer was overthrown in 1843 by a conspiracy led by the mulatto Hérard Dumesle and Charles Rivière-Hérard and fled on March 13 on an English warship to Jamaica , where he formally abdicated . After a long stay in Jamaica, he went to Paris, where he died in 1850.

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predecessor Office successor
Alexandre Sabès Pétion President of Haiti
1818 - 1843 		Charles Rivière-Hérard
personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the Republic of Haiti
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince , Saint-Domingue
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1850
Place of death Paris