Claim: Jean-Jacques Dessalines was independent Hati's first ruler.
Evidence: Jean-Jacques Dessalines -LRB- -LSB- ʒɑ̃ ʒak dɛs.salin -RSB- ; 20 September 1758 -- 17 October 1806 -RRB- was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.