José Emeterio Hazim Frappier (born 19 February 1951) is a physician, academic and politician from the

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. He was the 2004 Social Christian Reformist Party candidate for Vice President of the Dominican Republic and

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for the

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San Pedro de Macorís San Pedro de Macorís is a city and municipality (''municipio'') in the Dominican Republic. The capital of its eponymous province in the east region of the country, it is among the ten largest cities of the Dominican Republic. The city has approx ...

from 1994 to 2006. Hazim was Interim president of his party during the illness of the late

Carlos Morales Troncoso Carlos Morales Troncoso (29 September 1940 – 25 October 2014) was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 1986 to 1994 and its foreign minister from 2004 to 2014. Family background Carlos Morales Troncoso's grandfather, Manuel de Jes� ...

. He was born to José Altagracia Hazim Azar (1913–1999), the son of Emeterio José Hazim Assy and Kamel Azar Azar —both Lebanese immigrants natives to and

Amioun Amioun (; ) is the capital of the predominantly Greek Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon, Greek Orthodox Koura District (i.e. χώρα, "country" in Greek) in North Lebanon. Etymology The town of Amioun derives its name from the Aramaic language, ...

, respectively—, and María Luisa 'Niní' Frappier Mallen (1913–2015), an immigrant from

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, sister of Captain Adolfo 'Boy' Frappier, who devised the use of the word ''parsley'' to identify Haitians in 1937, and aunt of Mary Peláez Frappier.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hazim Frappier, Jose Living people 1951 births Dominican Republic people of German descent Dominican Republic people of Lebanese descent Social Christian Reformist Party politicians Members of the Senate of the Dominican Republic White Dominicans