Jean Nicolas Nissage Saget | |
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| 10th President of Haiti | |
| In office December 27, 1869 – May 13, 1874 | |
| Vice President | Michel Domingue[1] (1869-1870) |
| Preceded by | Sylvain Salnave |
| Succeeded by | Council of Secretaries of State |
| Provisional President of Haiti | |
| In office March 13, 1867 – May 4, 1867 | |
| Preceded by | Fabre Geffrard |
| Succeeded by | Sylvain Salnave |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 20, 1810 Saint-Marc, Haiti |
| Died | April 7, 1880 (aged 69) Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Political party | National Party |
| Spouse | Marie-Louise Augustin Sinni |
| Profession | General |
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget[2] (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ nikɔla nisaʒ saʒɛ]; September 20, 1810 – April 7, 1880) preceded Sylvain Salnave as President of Haiti in 1869. Coming into power by coup, Saget was the first Haitian president to serve out his term of office (1869–1874) and retire voluntarily, although his retirement led to a renewal of the political turmoil between blacks and the country's mulatto elites. He died in 1880.[3]
- ^ "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.
- ^ The given name "Jean-Nicolas" does not appear in early sources (which refer to him exclusively as "Nissage Saget"), though one 1880 source refers to him as "Nicolas Nissage Saget". Many modern sources include "Jean-Nicolas", though some omit "Jean-Nicolas" entirely. Some sources--both early and modern--suggest that Nissage is a given name. Some sources hyphenate "Nissage-Saget" or treat "Nissage Saget" as a compound family name; others use Saget alone as his family name.
- ^ Rogozinski, Jan (1999). A Brief History of the Caribbean (Revised ed.). New York: Facts on File, Inc. pp. 220. ISBN 0-8160-3811-2.