Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam

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Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam (born March 4, 1859 in Ouanaminthe , Haiti , † July 28, 1915 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti, murdered) was a Haitian general and for a short time President of Haiti in 1915.

Sam, whose father Tirésias Simon-Sam was also President of Haiti from 1896 to 1902, was a general in the Haitian Army. He put himself to power on March 4, 1915 against President Joseph Davilmar Théodore and ruled as a dictator . On July 27, 1915, insurgent small farmers, the so-called Caco rebels, occupied the Haitian capital. Shortly before the insurgents stormed the presidential palace, Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was able to flee injured to the neighboring French embassy. On his orders, 167 prisoners were murdered in a prison in Port-au-Prince, the majority of whom were political prisoners from Haiti's Mulatto elite. On the morning of July 28, 1915, a crowd spurred on by surviving prisoners stormed the French embassy and dragged Sam out of the building. On the street, Sam was slain with machetes, beheaded and his body hacked up. According to a report by the French ambassador, on July 29, 1915, the widow of Sam was offered her husband's head for sale.

In the late afternoon of July 28, 1915, the 19-year occupation of Haiti began with the landing of US troops in Port-au-Prince. As the successor to Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, the USA installed Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave as president on August 12, 1915 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon Heinl, Michael Heinl: Written in blood. The story of the Haitian people, 1492-1995 . University Press of America, Lanham 1996. ISBN 0-7618-0229-0 . P. 370.
  2. ^ Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon Heinl, Michael Heinl: Written in blood. The story of the Haitian people, 1492-1995 . P. 374.
  3. ^ Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon Heinl, Michael Heinl: Written in blood. The story of the Haitian people, 1492-1995 . P. 376f.
  4. ^ Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon Heinl, Michael Heinl: Written in blood. The story of the Haitian people, 1492-1995 . P. 378f.
  5. ^ Robert Debs Heinl, Nancy Gordon Heinl, Michael Heinl: Written in blood. The story of the Haitian people, 1492-1995 . P. 380f.

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predecessor Office successor
Joseph Davilmar Théodore President of Haiti
March 4, 1915-28. July 1915 		Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave
personal data
SURNAME Sam, Jean Vilbrun Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dictator and head of state of Haiti
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Ouanaminthe
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1915
Place of death Port-au-Prince