Charles Riviere-Herard (16 February 1789-31 August 1850) was President of Haiti from 4 April 1843 to 3 May 1844, succeeding Jean-Pierre Boyer and preceding Philippe Guerrier.
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Charles Riviere-Herard was born in Port-Salut, Saint Domingue in 1789, and he commanded a battalion of black troops during the Haitian Revolution. In 1843, he was chief among the conspirators who overthrew President Jean-Pierre Boyer, and the Parliament enacted a new constitution. However, Herard, who did not approve the constitution, led a military coup which seized control of the government, and he led 25,000 Haitian soldiers into eastern Hispaniola to crush the Dominican revolutionaries during the Dominican War of Independence. His army was quickly defeated, and Herard was forced to relinquish the presidency after several uprisings broke out against his rule. He was exiled to Jamaica, where he died in 1850.