Nissage Saget [SEP] position held
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget
Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget (1810–1880) succeeded Sylvain Salnave as President of Haiti in 1869. Coming into power by coup, Saget was the first Haitian president to serve out his term of office (1869–1874) and retire voluntarily, although his retirement led to a renewal of the political turmoil between blacks and the country's mulatto elites. He died in 1880.
Presidency.
On March 19, 1870, the National Assembly elected General Nissage Saget President of Haiti for a term of four
final days. Betances stayed in New York from April 1869 through February 1870.
Exile from and return to Puerto Rico ""Padre de la Patria"" (Father of the Puerto Rican Nation) In Hispaniola.
Somewhat disillusioned by his experience in New York City (he had philosophical differences with some leaders of the Antillean liberation movements, particularly with Eugenio María de Hostos), Betances spent a short interlude in Jacmel, Haiti in 1870 at the request of its then-president, Jean Nissage-Saget, who supported Betances' efforts to