Fabre Geffrard

Fabre Geffrard ( born September 19, 1806 L' Anse à Beau, Haiti, † February 11, 1879 in Jamaica) was a Haitian politician.

Geffrard the son of General Nicholas Geffrard, co- founder of Haiti's independence and Governor († 1806) was the Southern Province.

Fabre Geffrard joined after he had been promoted in the military service from 1821 to 1843 to the captain, the collection of General Hérard against the President Boyer was appointed by the Liberal People's Committee to the Supreme and scattered completely as leader of Hérards vanguard Boyer's troops at Numéro Deux. The same year he was appointed the provisional government to Port-au -Prince to brigadier general and commander of the district of Jacmel and after Geffrard had suppressed a counter-revolution under General Achard in the making, 1845 Division General.

The jealous of his growing influence President Riché relieved him of his command in 1846, although in the province of Jacmel and set him before a court-martial; Geffrard but was acquitted in 1849 and received by the President Soulouque again command an army division in the first war against Santo Domingo ( now the Dominican Republic), in which he acquired by his victory at La Tabarra the duke.

In the second war against San Domingo ( 1856) Geffrard be recorded several times, including by the skillful management of the withdrawal of the artillery after Banico from.

From Soulouque threatened with arrest and execution, he escaped and organized a rebellion, which had the fall Soulouques result, whereupon he entered on January 15, 1859 unopposed as President of Haiti in Port-au- Prince.

Despite manifold intrigues he claimed, up to the beginning of 1867 when it to an officer of the army, Sylvain Salnave, who had earlier revolted in vain, managed to bring him down. Geffrard escaped on a French ship and was put to Jamaica, where he died in February, 1879.

• Man
• Haitian
• Politicians (Haiti)
• Military person (Haiti)
• Born in 1806
• Died in 1879