François Denys Légitime | |
Office: | Member of the State Council representing Sud |
Term Start: | June 22, 1918 |
Term End: | June 5, 1919 |
Office2: | 14th President of Haiti |
Term Start2: | December 16, 1888 |
Term End2: | August 22, 1889 |
Predecessor2: | Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal |
Successor2: | Monpoint Jeune |
Office3: | Chief of the Executif Branch of Haiti |
Term Start3: | October 16, 1888 |
Term End3: | December 16, 1888 |
Predecessor3: | Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal |
Successor3: | Himself |
Office4: | Member of the Provisional Government of Haiti |
Term Start4: | September 1, 1888 |
Term End4: | October 16, 1888 |
President4: | Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal |
Office5: | Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship |
Term Start5: | September 1, 1888 |
Term End5: | December 16, 1888 |
President5: | Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal |
Predecessor5: | Brutus Saint-Victor |
Successor5: | Eugène Margron (Foreign Affairs) Massillon Lauture (Worship) |
Office6: | Minister of Agriculture, Interior, Education, Worship and Justice |
Term Start6: | August 26, 1881 |
Term End6: | December 31, 1881 |
President6: | Lysius Salomon |
Predecessor6: | Himself (Agriculture and Interior) Charles Archin (Education, Worship and Justice) |
Successor6: | François Manigat (Agriculture and Education) Edouard Pickombe (Interior) Thomas Madiou (Justice and Worship) |
Office7: | Minister of Agriculture, Finance, Commerce and Interior |
Term Start7: | January 9, 1881 |
Term End7: | August 26, 1881 |
President7: | Lysius Salomon |
Predecessor7: | Himself (Agriculture, Finance and Commerce) Evarise Laroche (Interior) |
Successor7: | Himself (Agriculture and Interior) Brutus Saint-Victor (Finance and Commerce) |
Office8: | Minister of Agriculture, Finance and Commerce |
Term Start8: | December 9, 1880 |
Term End8: | January 9, 1881 |
President8: | Lysius Salomon |
Predecessor8: | Evariste Laroche |
Successor8: | Himself |
Birth Date: | 20 November 1841 |
Birth Place: | Jérémie, Haiti |
Death Place: | Port-au-Prince |
Party: | Liberal Party |
Spouse: | Rose Marie Isaure Marion |
Occupation: | Military general |
Birth Name: | François Déus Légitime |
François Denys Légitime (in French pronounced as /fʁɑ̃swa dəni leʒitim/; November 20, 1841 - July 29, 1935) was a Haitian general who served as President of Haiti from 1888 to 1889.
Légitime was born in Jérémie, Haiti, on 20 November 1841[1] to Denys Légitime and Tinette Lespérance.[2] Lespérance was a grandson of Modeste Testas.[3] Légitime married Rose-Marie Isaure Marion and had nine children: Cuvier, Edmond, Angèle, Antoinette, Denis Jr., Léon, Clemence, Marie, and Agnès.
He served as adjutant general during the government of Fabre Geffrard, and as aide-de-camp during the government of Sylvain Salnave.[2] He was Secretary of State of the Interior and then Secretary of State of the Interior and of Agriculture during the government of Lysius Salomon.[2] During this administration, Légitime was accused of aspiring to the presidency, and moved to Kingston, Jamaica, for three years.[4]
He returned to Haiti at the invitation of his followers, and on October 7, 1888, was elected president of the provisional government.[4] General Seide Thelemaque denounced the election as fraudulent and attempted to make himself President, but he was killed in the battle which ensued.[4] Légitime was elected President of Haiti on December 16, 1888, but resigned in 1889, owing to the opposition of General Florvil Hyppolite, and again retired to Jamaica.[4] In 1896 President Tiresias Simon Sam granted a general amnesty, and Légitime returned to Haiti.[4] He died on July 29, 1935 in Port-au-Prince.[5]
He wrote La nation ou la race haïtienne (1888).[6]