Jean Didier Eliezer Cadet (23 May 1897 – 8 December 1995)[1][2] was a Haitian Vodou priest[3] who, in 1919 attended the Paris Peace Conference and First Pan African Congress on behalf of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
[4] Eliezer was born in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, the son of Mesinor Pierre Cadet, a wealthy dyewood manufacturer, and Amazile Broux.
[2][5][6] He attended the College of Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague and subsequently supported himself as a car mechanic in Paris.
[7] Initially, the International League for Darker People, an umbrella organisation comprising the UNIA, had planned to send Ida B.
But as US authorities denied both Wells and Randolph passports and visas, the UNIA's Cadet, a Haitian national, became the organisations' sole delegate.