Clément Haentjens (born 30 May 1847 – 16 January 1923) was a

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

an diplomat and politician.

Biography

Haentjens is the son of Charles Haentjens, a former Haitian diplomat. He followed the same diplomatic career of his father and became Secretary of the legation of Haiti in Washington from 27 March 1870 to June 1874. He was the first Secretary of State of Public Works and also held the portfolio of Agriculture from 29 October 1889 to 1 August 1890, and particularly Chief of Staff President of Haiti from 4 August 1891 to October 1892. He eventually founded a diplomatic post as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Haiti to London October 8, 1892, and in Washington January 18, 1893, following the death of

Philippe Hannibal Price Philippe Hannibal Price was a Haitian diplomat and author. After the fall of President Michel Domingue, Price became a Counselor to the Provisional Government of 1875 and was a serious advocate of Florvil Hyppolite. From 1890 to 1893 he served a ...

. He moved to Paris after resigning from his post in Washington in 1896.

References

1847 births 1923 deaths Agriculture ministers of Haiti Public works ministers of Haiti Haitian diplomats People from Port-au-Prince Haitian expatriates in France Ambassadors of Haiti to the United States Ambassadors of Haiti to the United Kingdom {{Haiti-bio-stub