Vilbrun Guillaume Sam

Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam († July 28, 1915 ( murdered ) in Port -au -Prince ) was a Haitian general and 1915 for a short time President of Haiti.

Sam, whose father Tiresias Simon Sam from 1896 to 1902 was also President of Haiti, was a general in the Haitian army. He rallied at March 4, 1915 against President Joseph Théodore Davilmar to power and ruled as a dictator. On July 27, 1915 occupied insurgent peasants, called Caco rebels, the Haitian capital. Shortly before storming the presidential palace by rebels Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was able to escape hurt in the neighboring French embassy. 167 prisoners were killed on his orders in a prison of Port -au -Prince, the political prisoners from the mulatto elite of Haiti were in the majority. A angestachelte of surviving prisoners crowd stormed the morning of July 28, 1915, the French Embassy and pulled Sam out of the building. On the road Sam was killed with machetes, decapitated and his body hacked. According to a report by the French ambassador, the Sam's widow was offered to her husband's head to buy on July 29, 1915.

In the late afternoon of July 28, 1915 began with the landing of American troops in Port -au -Prince, the 19 -year occupation of Haiti. As the successor of Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, the U.S. put a as president on August 12, 1915 Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave.