Philippe Guerrier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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President of Haiti
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Place of Birth: Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, Nord, Haiti
About Philippe Guerrier
- Jean-Jacques Louis Philippe Guerrier (December 19, 1757 – April 15, 1845) was a career officer and general in the Haitian Army who became President of Haïti on May 3, 1844.
- He died in office on April 15, 1845. A respected soldier, Guerrier had successfully commanded the southern black army during the Haitian Revolution.
- After Haiti became independent, he retired from active service and became a plantation owner.
- King Henry I gave him the hereditary title of Duke of l'Avancé. In 1844, discontent erupted among rural farmers and cultivaters over economic conditions within the country.
- These disaffected groups formed bands of armed men known as "piquets".
- The piquets were gradually brought under the command of a former army officer, Louis Jean-Jacques Acaau, who used them to disrupt government control over the south of Haiti.
- Eventually with their increasing success, the piquets acquired political aspirations.
- The foremost of these were the dismantling of mulatto power over the government and a return to black rule.
- These goals were believed to have been met when in May 1844, President Rivière-Hérard was removed from office by the mulatto hierarchy and replaced with the aged black general Philippe Guerrier, who assumed the presidency on May 3, 1844.
- Guerrier held office for only 11 months before he died on April 15, 1845.
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