[1] After the war he went back to local politics and did not figure in public life until the overthrow of President Lysius Salomon by General François Denys Légitime in 1888.

[1] On 9 October 1889, Hyppolite was elected to a seven-year term as president of Haiti by the Constituent Assembly, which met at Gonaives.

[2] The Môle Saint-Nicolas affair once disposed of, Hyppolite's government had to come to an understanding with the French legation at Port-au-Prince concerning its recent practice of granting naturalizations on Haitian territory.

[2] Wanting to extend its commerce and make its products known abroad, Haiti took part in the Chicago Exposition, where it won many high prizes.

[2][3] He started on 24 March 1896, at three o'clock in the morning, but before he even had time to leave Port-au-Prince he fell from his horse dead, in a "fit of apoplexy", at a short distance from the Executive Mansion.

[2] Because President Hyppolite's strong personality rather than his party kept his government in power, it was feared that his death would precipitate a revolution.

[2] The new president, Tirésias Simon Sam, was elected to the vacancy on 1 April by the Senate and House of Representatives, and was installed without the feared revolution coming to pass.