Francois duvalier

  • birth

    birth
    Francois Duvalier born on April 14, 1907 was raised by his aunt and had a degree in medicine. He graduated from the Haitian national university with a degree in medicine.
    Duvalier continued to work with medicine for a long time
  • early life

    early life
    January 1st 1939;He then started to raise awareness about tropical diseases. He helped people in central america and the he helped those in need against malaria yaws and typhus. He then eventually got the nickname ¨papa doc¨.
  • marriage

    marriage
    January 1st 1939 francois gets married to a woman named Simone Ovide a nurse. Later on they have 3 daughters and one son. Their names were nicole, simone, marie, and jean.
  • medecines

    medecines
    January 1st 1944;Duvalier continued his studies of medicine at Michigan university. After returning to Haiti he then became the leader of the health and labor in the government of president dumarais este his former high school teacher.
  • campaigning

    campaigning
    He returned to practicing with medicines especially for campaigning and giving more support to those with malaria,yaws. He then took place of Dumarsais Estimé after he was overthrown by Paul E. Magloire.
  • speeches

    speeches
    Duvaliers speech was the same as any other speech saying that h would change his country and give it a new start. After a while in presidency he had defeated Louis Déjoie with his very large army of.
  • president

    president
    Francois was president from 1957 until death and he had changed a lot in haiti but after 2 years he had a heart attack leading his Barbot to lead until he had recovered from it.
  • 30,000 deaths

    30,000 deaths
    After Barbots release from jail Francois had him executed for the attempt of an insurrection. Although Duvalier was the cause of over 30,000 he also helped much of the country.
  • power

    power
    Duvalier was the longest to stay in power out of all his predecessors. Back to Barbot, barbot had manipulated the legislative elections in order for him to stay in office for a longer time.
  • death

    death
    Duvalier died in Haiti on April 21, 1971 in Porta-au-Prince