About this picture: Here is a photo of Jean-Claude Duvalier Presidency.
was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and was raised in an isolated environment.
He attended the most prestigious Haitian schools, College Bird and Saint-Louis de Gonzague.
Later, under the direction of several prominent professors, including Maitre Gerard Gourgue, at the University of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalie studied law. During April, 1971, he assumed the presidency of Haiti at the age of 19 upon the death of his father, Fran ois Duvalier nicknamed Papa Doc, becoming the world's youngest president.
Initially, Jean-Claude Duvalier resisted the dynastic arrangement that had made him Haiti's leader, having preferred that the presidency go to his older sister Marie-Denise Duvalier, and was content to leave substantive and administrative matters in the hands of his mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier, and a committee led by Luckner Cambronne, his father's Interior Minister, while he attended ceremonial functions and lived as a playboy
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