Yolette Leconte

On December 6, 1950, she became the First Lady of Haiti and 6 days later, she moved at the National Palace (Haiti). As First Lady, Leconte was very active in charity work, where she presided over charitable banquets, opened charity balls, inaugurated vaccination campaigns, inspected old people's hospices, visited hospitals, maternity wards and orphanages. Launched in 1951, with the opening of the Bel-Air canteen and the saline canteen, the Madame Paul E. Magloire Foundation was created to establish two solid educational and professional training institutions for young girls in Haiti, L'ecoles des arts menagers of Saint Martin and that of Cap-Haitien. On February 7, 1955, she and her husband traveled to Washington, D.C., for a State Visit, where they were welcomed by the Vice-President Richard Nixon and his wife. They were received by President Eisenhower at the White House for a State Dinner and lodged in the Lincoln Bedroom. During this trip, the Malgoire's visited Nashville, Chicago, Boston and New York, where they received a ticker-tape parade on January 31, 1955.^[1] On December 12, 1956, Leconte was exiled with her husband to Kingston, Jamaica. Two weeks later she moved to Paris, France then in 1957 to Queens, New York.

She first developed symptoms of Parkinson's disease in 1960, and then died 21 years later on June 13, 1981, in Queens, New York.^[2]

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