Solon Ménos

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. He was a poet and the author of L'Affaire Lüders (The Lüders Affair), which described the conflict between Haiti and Germany during Tirésias Simon Sam's presidency.