José Hazim Frappier

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Hazim and the second or maternal family name is Frappier.

José Hazim Frappier
Senator for the province of San Pedro de Macorís
Taking office 16 August 2016
Succeeding	José María Sosa (Dominican Liberation’s Party)
Senator for the province of San Pedro de Macorís
In office 16 August 1994 – 16 August 2006
Preceded by	?
Succeeded by	Alejandro Williams (Dominican Liberation’s Party)
2004 Social Christian Reformist Party candidate for Vice President of the Dominican Republic
Preceded by	Jacinto Peynado Garrigosa (2000)
Succeeded by	José Enrique Sued (2008)
Rector of the Central University of the East
In office October 1970 – January 2014
Preceded by	José Hazim Azar
Succeeded by	José Hazim Torres
Personal details
Born	(1951-02-19) February 19, 1951 San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic
Political party	Social Christian Reformist Party
Spouse(s)	Vilma Torres Puesan
Children	José Hazim Torres (male), Kamel Hazim Torres (female)
Parents	José Hazim Azar, María Luisa Frappier Mallen
Residence	San Pedro de Macorís
Profession	Physician

José Emeterio Hazim Frappier (born 19 February 1951) is a physician, academician and politician from the Dominican Republic. He was the 2004 Social Christian Reformist Party candidate for Vice President of the Dominican Republic and Senator for the province of San Pedro de Macorís from 1994 to 2006. Hazim was Interim president of his party during the illness of the late Carlos Morales Troncoso.

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 ar and Amioun, respectively—, and María Luisa ‘Niní’ Frappier Mallen (1913–2015), an immigrant from Bremen, Germany, 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.