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Jean Price-Mars

Died in 1969

Jean Price-Mars was born on 15 October 1876 in Grande-Rivière-du-Nord. A scholarship holder in 1896, he studied medicine in Paris. Inspector of public instruction from 1912 to 1915, he was Haiti's minister in Paris from 1915, then a senator. In 1930 he withdrew his candidacy for the presidency in favour of Sténio Vincent. In 1941 he founded the Institute of Ethnology, was minister of Foreign Affairs in 1946, then ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He died in March 1969.

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