Max Puig, in full Maximiliano Rabelais Puig Miller (born c. 1946), is a Dominican politician who served as congressman in the 1990s and

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and the

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in the 2000s.

Early life and family

Puig was born in Puerto Plata to Elvia Iluminación Miller Martínez, a renowned teacher, and José Augusto Puig Ortiz, a dissident during the dictatorship of

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who served as Ambassador to France in the mid-1960s. By his father, he is descended from José María Arzeno, a 19th-century mayor of Puerto Plata —and the son of an immigrant from

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, then in the

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—, who married Gertrudis Westen, the daughter of a Dutchman and a Haitian mulâtresse. By his mother —whose mother was of Spanish origin, while her father was of African American and Turks and Caicos Islander descent— he is descended from Scipio Beard and Julian Beard, free negroes that migrated to Puerto Plata during the Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo from Missouri, United States. While living in France, Puig met and married his classmate Elisabeth Buchel, a Frenchwoman; they had 2 children. He has two doctorates, one in ''Law'' and other in ''Political Sciences''.

Political career

Puig served as congressman in the 1990s, and as

and Minister of the

in the 2000s. Puig was one of six presidential candidates that contested the

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. Puig ran for president under the Alliance for Democracy (APD) political party.

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