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1807-03-09

The Senate elects Pétion to head the Republic, giving him thirteen of the seventeen votes cast, with one each for Gérin, Magloire-Ambroise and Yayou.

Haitian

Bonnet and Larose then took the floor in favor of the candidacy of Pétion. The assembly passed at once to the secret ballot, the counting of which gave thirteen votes to Pétion, one to Gérin, one to Magloire-Ambroise and one to Yayou; the seventeenth vote was lost.

Source  ·  p. 6 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 6; English translation, Rasanblaj.