Tertullien Guilbaud

Tertullien Guilbaud (May 22, 1856 – 1937) was a lawyer, diplomat, and poet from Haiti.

Guilbaud was borh in Port-de-Paix on May 22, 1856. Guilbaud worked as a professor at the Lycee Phillippe-Guerrier and opened a law school in 1894. In 1896, he became Chief of the Cabinet of President Tirésias Simon Sam.

As the envoy to Paris for Haiti, Guilbaud signed in place of the President of Haiti for the peace treaty that led to the formal end of World War I. While at the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles he was forced by the United States government to reject a clause banning racial discrimination in the League of Nations. Guilbaud was an honored delegate of the first Pan-African Congress. He also served as Minister of Public Education under the administration of President Sténio Vincent.

Guilbaud wrote patriotic poetry, which was included in Anthologie d’un Siécle de Poésie Haitienne edited by Louis Morpeau. Guilbaud died in 1937.