Jean-Claude Duvalier
- January 5, 2024
- Politician
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jean-Claude Duvalier |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Date Of Birth | Jul 3, 1951(1951-07-03) |
| Age | 73 |
| Date Of Death | October 4, 2014, Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Birthplace | Haiti |
| Country | Haiti |
| Horoscope | Cancer |
Jean-Claude Duvalier Biography
| Name | Jean-Claude Duvalier |
| Birthday | Jul 3 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place Of Birth | Haiti |
| Birth Country | Haiti |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Spouse | Michèle Bennett |
| Children(s) | Nicolas Duvalier, Anya Duvalier |
Jean-Claude Duvalier is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 3, 1951 in Haiti, Haiti. In 1971, at the age of 19, he became the 41st President of Haiti. He served until 1986 when an uprising bumped him from office. He was a ruthless tyrant who killed thousands of his own people and profited off of the drug trade while most Haitians lived in poverty.
Due to his anti-communist stance he developed good relations with President Ronald Reagan, after his relations had previously suffered under Jimmy Carter’s term.
By neglecting his role in government, Duvalier squandered considerable domestic and foreign goodwill and facilitated the dominance of Haitian affairs by a clique of hardline Duvalierist cronies, the so-called “dinosaurs”. Foreign officials and observers also seemed tolerant toward “Baby Doc” in areas such as human rights monitoring and foreign countries were more generous to him with economic assistance. The Nixon administration restored the United States aid program for Haiti in 1971.
In April 1971, he assumed the presidency of Haiti at the age of 19 upon the death of his father, François Duvalier (nicknamed “Papa Doc”), becoming the world’s youngest president. Initially, Jean-Claude Duvalier resisted the dynastic arrangement that had made him Haiti’s leader, having preferred that the presidency go to his older sister Marie-Denise Duvalier, and was content to leave substantive and administrative matters in the hands of his mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier, and a committee led by Luckner Cambronne, his father’s Interior Minister, while he attended ceremonial functions and lived as a playboy.
He married Michèle Bennett Pasquet in 1980, and they had two children: Nicholas and Anya.
Jean-Claude Duvalier Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Politician |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jean-Claude Duvalier is one of the richest Politician from Haiti. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jean-Claude Duvalier 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He attended the University of Haiti and studied law.
His wedding was an estimated $3 million extravaganza. His office was benefited in its US relation during the Reagan Administration, due to his strong anti- communist stance.
Jean-Claude Duvalier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃klod dyvalje] ), nicknamed “Baby Doc” (Haitian Creole: Bebe Dòk; 3 July 1951 – 4 October 2014), was a Haitian politician who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. He succeeded his father François “Papa Doc” Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti after his death in 1971. After assuming power, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father’s regime and delegated much authority to his advisors. Thousands of Haitians were killed or tortured, and hundreds of thousands fled the country during his presidency. He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle (including a state-sponsored US$ 2 million wedding in 1980) while poverty among his people remained the most widespread of any country in the Western Hemisphere.
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A revolt began in the provinces in 1985. The city of Gonaïves was the first to have street demonstrations and raids on food-distribution warehouses. From October 1985 to January 1986, the protests spread to six other cities, including Cap-Haïtien. By the end of that month, Haitians in the south had revolted. The most significant rioting there broke out in Les Cayes.
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Jean-Claude Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Haiti. Jean-Claude Duvalier celebrates birthday on July 3 of every year.
In January 1986, the Reagan administration began to pressure Duvalier to renounce his rule and to leave Haiti. Representatives appointed by Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga served as intermediaries who carried out the negotiations. At this point a number of Duvalierists and business leaders met with the Duvaliers and pressed for their departure. The United States rejected a request to provide asylum for Duvalier, but offered to assist with their departure. On 30 January 1986, Duvalier had initially accepted, and President Reagan actually announced his departure based on a report from the Haitian CIA Station Chief who saw Duvalier’s car head for the airport. En route, there was gunfire and Duvalier’s party returned to the palace unnoticed by the U.S. intelligence team. Duvalier declared “we are as firm as a monkey tail.” He departed on 7 February 1986, flying to France in a U.S. Air Force aircraft.