Pierre Joseph Louis Déjoie (23 February 1896 – 11 July 1969,

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an sugar planter, industrialist, agricultural engineer, landowner and politician.

Early years

Déjoie was a descendant of a

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slave-holder, and former Haitian President

Fabre Geffrard Guillaume Fabre Nicolas Geffrard (; 19/23 September 1806 – 31 December 1878) was a Mulatto Haitians, mulatto general in the Military of Haiti, Haitian army and President of Haiti from 1859 until his deposition in 1867. On 18 April 1852 ...

, who overthrew the Faustin empire. He ran for the Presidency against Francois Duvalier in

1957 Haitian general election General elections were held in Haiti on 22 September 1957. Former Minister of Labour François Duvalier won the presidential election running under the National Unity Party banner, defeating Louis Déjoie, as well as independent moderate Cleme ...

. His party only won 2 of the 37 seats in the country's

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, and he received only 26.6% of the vote to Duvalier's 72.4%.

References

1896 births 1969 deaths Candidates for President of Haiti 20th-century Haitian businesspeople Haitian anti-communists Haitian exiles Haitian people of French descent Mulatto Haitians 20th-century planters {{Haiti-bio-stub