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1816

1816: Alexandre Pétion is proclaimed President for Life with the authority to nominate his own successor.

1816: Alexandre Pétion is proclaimed President for Life with the authority to nominate his own successor. This institutional change was part of a revised constitution that sought to stabilize the republic’s leadership.

Source  ·  p. 34 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 34