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Josaphat Celestin
1956–
United States
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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 mayor of a sizable city in the United States. Celestin was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to a physician and emigrated to the United States in 1979.
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