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Jacques Nicolas Leger

Jacques Nicolas Leger, Haitian lawyer, politician, and diplomat

Jacques Nicolas Leger, Haitian lawyer, politician, and diplomat

Jacques Nicolas Léger was born in 1859 in the city of Les Cayes. He was a lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He received his law degree in Paris, France. His father was a Haitian Senator. In 1881, Jacques Nicolas Léger became secretary of the Haitian legation in Paris, and later, charge d'affaires. In 1896, Jacques was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Haiti at Washington. In 1911, minister of foreign affairs but was recalled by President Oreste Zamor in 1914.

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