About this picture: Jean-Claude Duvalier was born in Port-au-Prince, and was raised in an isolated environment.
Jean-Claude Duvalier attended the most prestigious Haitian schools, College Bird and the Saint-Louis de Gonzague.
Later, under the direction of several prominent professors, including Maitre Gerard Gourgue, at the University of Haiti, he studied law.
During April, 1971, Jean-Claude Duvalier assumed the presidency of Haiti at the age of 19 upon the death of his father, François Duvalier (nicknamed "Papa Doc"), becoming the world's youngest president.[1] 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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