Background
Jean Price-Mars was born on October 15, 1876 in Grande Rivière-du-Nord, Haiti.
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Jean Price-Mars was born on October 15, 1876 in Grande Rivière-du-Nord, Haiti.
Haiti studied at Lycée Pétion in 1893-1895, Ecole de Médecine in 1895-1898, and schools of medical and letters. In 1898-1901 he attended University de Paris, and then University of Dakar, French West Africa.
Price-Mars served as secretary of the Haitian legation in Washington in 1909 and as chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1915–1916, during the initial years of the United States occupation of Haiti. After withdrawing as a candidate for the presidency of Haiti in favor of Stenio Vincent in 1930, Price-Mars led Senate opposition to the new president; he was forced out of politics. In 1941, Price-Mars was again elected to the Senate. He was secretary of state for external relations in 1946 and, later, ambassador to the Dominican Republic. In his eighties, he continued service as Haitian ambassador at the United Nations and ambassador to France.
Price-Mars was the first prominent defender of vodou as a full religion complete with "deities, a priesthood, a theology, and morality."
In 1930 Haiti married Clara Perez, with whom he had one daughter and two sons.