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Haiti president assassination 1915.
1915 occupation of haitiPrice-Mars, Jean (1876–1969)
Jean Price-Mars (b. 15 October 1876; d. 1 March 1969), Haitian teacher, diplomat, writer, and ethnographer. Price-Mars served as secretary of the Haitian legation in Washington (1909) and as chargé d'affaires in Paris (1915–1917).
In 1922 he completed medical studies that he had given up for lack of a scholarship. After withdrawing as a candidate for the presidency of Haiti in favor of Stenio Vincent in 1930, Price-Mars led Senate opposition to the new president and was forced out of politics.
Haiti president fled
In 1941, he was again elected to the Senate. He was secretary of state for external relations in 1946 and, later, ambassador to the Dominican Republic. In his eighties, he continued service as Haitian ambassador at the United Nations and ambassador to France.
Through his lectures and writing, Price-Mars brought popular culture, the Creole language, and the religion of Vodun into respectable focus.
He laid the groundwork for the formation of the Indigenist mo
