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1847

1847: Faustin Soulouque is elected president by the mulatto elite who intended to use him as a puppet.

1847: Faustin Soulouque is elected president by the mulatto elite who intended to use him as a puppet. They believed his lack of strong political connections would make him easy to control under the “politique de doublure.”

Source  ·  p. 53 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 53