President of Haiti Tancrede Auguste was one of the rare haitian president to die in power. Of his immediate predecessors, one died in an explosion in his palace (M. Cincinnatus Leconte), the others fled the country (Antoine Simon, Nord Alexis, Tirésias Simon Sam...). President Tancrède Auguste was suspected by some of blowing up the old palace in 1911.
Tancrède Auguste died on 2 mai 1913 due to an illness (according to certain rumor he was poisoned) after a trip to the North of the country. The Conseil des Secrétaires d'État composed of F. Baufossé Laroche, Seymour Pradel, Jacques Nicolas Léger, Tertullien Guilbaud, Edmond Lespinasse et Guatimosin Boco were in power from may 3rd to may 12, 1913.
Tancrède Auguste's funeral was interrupted when two generals began fighting over the succession…. One Michel Oreste got the job.
Tancrède Auguste was a member of the Conseil des Secrétaires d'État (avec Tirésias Simon Sam et Solon Ménos) that assured the transition to power from march 24 to march 31, 1896 between the death of Florvil Hyppolite and the election of Tirésias Simon Sam. He was also the grand-father of the famous writer Jacques Roumains.
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