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Josaphat J. Celestin, also known as Joe Celestin, is an American politician who served as the mayor of North Miami, Florida from 2001 to 2005. A Republican, he was the first Haitian-American of a sizable city in the United States. [1] Celestin was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to a physician and emigrated to the United States in 1979. [1] [2]
He is the first Haitian-American to serve as a Miami-Dade County commissioner, as well as the first to chair the commission. [1] [2] Monestime represents District 2 in northeast Miami-Dade County, which incorporates portions of North Miami, North Miami Beach and Biscayne Gardens, as well as the Miami neighborhoods of Little Haiti and Liberty ...
Smith Joseph, the Democratic mayor of North Miami, Florida and a physician, was born in Haiti in 1961. Joseph emigrated to the United States in 1979 with his family to Miami, Florida. He graduated from Florida A&M University and Nova Southeastern University, later opening a medical practice in 2001. [2]
The election to replace Miami-Dade County’s only Haitian-American commissioner has come down to a pair of veteran Haitian-American leaders in District 2: one a two-term mayor, the other a ...
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She was one of two finalists in the non-partisan 2013 North Miami mayoral election, [5] a city where 1/3rd of the population was Haitian-American. [4] On June 4, 2013, Tondreau was elected after a runoff election between her and former mayor Kevin Burns . [ 6 ]
The number of Haitian-American candidates running for the Miami-Dade County Commission seat for District 2 is raising some concerns in the community about a split vote during the August election.