Solon Ménos

{{Short description|Haitian writer and politician}}

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Solon Ménos (9 March 1859 – 14 October 1918) was a Haitian writer and politician. Born in Anse-à-Veau, Ménos studied in France and received a doctorate in law there at the age of twenty-two. A prominent politician, Ménos served as Haiti's minister to Washington, D.C., and Minister of Finance in 1897.{{cite web |title=Liste des titulaires du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances de Janvier 1804 à nos jours |url=http://www.mefhaiti.gouv.ht/leMinistere/Liste%20titulaires%20du%20MEF.htm |website=mefhaiti.gouv.ht |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231161859/http://www.mefhaiti.gouv.ht/leMinistere/Liste%20titulaires%20du%20MEF.htm |archive-date=31 December 2012 |url-status=dead}} He was a poet and the author of L'Affaire Lüders ({{langx|en|The Lüders Affair}}), which described the conflict between Haiti and Germany during Tirésias Simon Sam's presidency.

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  • {{cite book | last = Schutt-Ainé | first = Patricia | title = Haiti: A Basic Reference Book | publisher = Librairie Au Service de la Culture | year = 1994 | location = Miami, Florida | isbn = 0-9638599-0-0 | page = 96 }}

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Category:1859 births

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Category:Haitian male poets

Category:Foreign ministers of Haiti

Category:Finance ministers of Haiti

Category:Ambassadors of Haiti to the United States

Category:19th-century Haitian poets

Category:20th-century Haitian poets

Category:19th-century Haitian male writers

Category:20th-century Haitian male writers

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