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	William Tubman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was succeeded as President by his long-time vice president William Tolbert.
		William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman (November 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia from 1944 until his death in 1971.
		William attended primary school in Harper, then the Methodist Cape Palmas Seminary, and finally Harper County High School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Tubman (629 words)

	William R. Tolbert, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon becoming president with Tubman's death, Tolbert initiated some liberal reforms and allowed the creation of an opposition party, the Progressive Alliance of Liberia, the first opposition in 125 years of Liberia's independence.
		He was elected Vice president to William V.S. Tubman in 1951 and served in that position until Tubman's death in 1971.
		On April 12, 1980, Tolbert was overthrown by military mutineers in a coup and was executed by being stabbed 15 times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_R._Tolbert,_Jr. (278 words)

	Descendants of William Lively, 1770
		William Arnwine-[13900] was born on 1-22-1836 in Tennessee and died on 3-2-1905 in Maydelle, Texas at age 69.
		William was born on 12-25-1851 in Louisiana and died on 5-18-1900 at age 48.
		William was born on 2-22-1885 and died on 9-6-1954 at age 69.
	www.livelyroots.com /wmlively/d1.htm (5778 words)

	William R. Tolbert, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jimmy Carter and William Tolbert, April 3, 1978
		He was elected vice president to William V.S. Tubman in 1955 and served in that position until Tubman's death in 1971.
		On April 12, 1980, Tolbert was overthrown and killed in a coup led by Samuel K. Doe, an ethnic Krahn.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Tolbert (270 words)

	TLC-Africa - Internet Magazine
		Tolbert also did a good job in the housing sector though I must add that the success was limited primarily to the Monrovia and there was still a lot of work needed to be done.
		Tolbert's administration ushered in an era where citizens were urged to speak out and criticize their Government without fear of retribution.
		Coming amid rising public pressure for political and economic reform and a crackdown on dissent by the Tolbert regime, the takeover was welcomed by many inside and outside Liberia as a significant shift favoring the 95 percent of the population excluded from power by Americo-Liberians.
	www.tlcafrica.com /research2.htm (5181 words)

	Liberian Observer: Presidents
		William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was born in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia, on November 29, 1895.
		Partly for this reason, the Tolbert family was one of the largest Americo-Liberian families.
		He was Vice President of Liberia when President Anthony William Gardiner’s handling of a boundary dispute with the British was disapproved by a number of senators.
	www.liberianobserver.com /news/categoryfront.php/id/19/Presidents.html (1101 words)

	Liberia
		William R. Tolbert, Jr., 19th President of Liberia, took office in 1971, upon the death of his predecessor, William V. Tubman.
		Tolbert was overthrown in a coup led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe on April 12, 1980, when the constitution was suspended and martial law imposed.
		A new constitution was drafted and reviewed by an elected assembly; the ban on political activity was lifted and an Interim National Assembly appointed in July 1984; and four political parties were able to register and complete in presidential and legislative elections held on October 15, 1985.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Liberia.html (344 words)

	LiberianForum.Com ~ Liberian Information Online
		Tolbert continued with the majority of Tubman's policies; however, unlike Tubman, Tolbert came to stand for closer links with the Soviet Union, a vision of cooperation with the states of the region and a belief in the Organization of African Unity.
		Since the overthrow of President William Tolbert in April 1980 total grants to Liberia were increased from $13.8 million in 1980 to $51,5 million in 1981.
		Among the leaders of Contemporary Africa, William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, President of the West African republic of Liberia, was a bizarre anachronism.
	www.liberianforum.com /history.htm (7668 words)

	To Heck with Liberia!, by Justin Raimondo
		William V. Tubman as President, in 1944, saw the extension of voting rights to indigenous peoples: Tubman was the first President to make a serious effort to reach out to — and control — the interior.
		As a portent of things to come, Tolbert's ministers were dragged down to the beach in their pajamas, lashed to telephone polls, and slaughtered, with the spectacle broadcast live to the "liberated" masses.
		Tolbert's response was to order his troops to fire on the unarmed demonstrators.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j070703.html (3448 words)

	Descendants of William Jenkins (1)
		Richard Lavina Jenkins Jr (1468) was born in 1880.
		William Merritt Jenkins (1467) was born in 1878.
		William Jenkins (1424) was born on 13 Jan 1886.
	www.jenkinsresearch.org /william0001.htm (9768 words)

	William R. Tolbert
		President William Tolbert, Jr., inherited a country with a political life controlled by less than 3 per cent of the population, the ‘Americo-Liberians’, and a modern economy in the hands of foreign investors.
		Guannu, Joseph Saye (ed.) Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of Liberia – From Joseph Jenkins Roberts to William Richard Tolbert, Jr, 1848 to 1976’ (New York, 1980).
		William Tolbert had quietly served President Tubman during five of his six terms of office and was at best considered a possible interim president.
	www.liberiapastandpresent.org /WilliamTolbert.htm (1256 words)

	Telegraph News
		was born on May 13, 1913 in Bensonville, Montserrado County, son of William and Charlotte Tolbert.
		On April 12, 1980, Tolbert and 13 officials of his administration were killed in a military coup led by the Liberian Master-Sergeant Samuel K Doe.
		William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman is Liberia’s longest-serving - and most effective - president, having held office for 27 years from 1944 to 1971.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/campaigns/liberia/libkey.xml (1517 words)

	A Sampling of The Sigma Legacy
		William V.S. Tubman lawyer and political leader was born November 29, 1895.
	www.geocities.com /sigma_in_germany/legacy.html (1117 words)

	International Experts to Manage Liberia for Three Years
		Tolbert’s identification of these enemies as foreign (external) invaders instead of regarding them as the results of the culture and politics of exclusion by his predecessors over a century was a major flaw in his timely analysis of the crises that were facing his government and the Liberian people in the 1970s.
		Tolbert, cognizant of the consequences of distributional conflict that was engulfing his government and the TWP, formulated his “humanistic capitalist” approach to economic development in an attempt to transcend the regressive Tubman era.
		However, in a hasty attempt to identify and combat these enemies, Tolbert decided to immediately summon at the Capitol Building his Defense Minister and Chief of Staff, cabinet ministers and members of both houses of parliament and the diplomatic corps to eloquently argue his case before the assembled officials of his government and foreign diplomats.
	www.theperspective.org /articles/0922200502.html (2148 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1963: Liberia
		The election in 1963 of President William V. Tubman for a fifth term and of Vice President William R. Tolbert, Jr., for a fourth term presaged continuation of established domestic and foreign policies.
		Since the True Whig Party, which nominated Tubman and Tolbert on February 7, had only nominal...
		Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741578602/1963_Liberia.html (167 words)

	Liberian History
		When Tolbert became president, he appeared to embrace economic growth with social, economic and political equity: a shift from export-oriented development activity to balanced investment in agriculture, education, health and labor-intensive projects, as well as decentralized planning to meet the needs of specific sectors and regions.
		When William V. Tubman (1944-1971) succeeded to the presidency, he inherited a country which was no longer threatened with political obliteration by external powers.
		Tolbert's leadership style produced conflicting signals so that, initially at least, all elements vying for power counted on him for maximum support.
	www.onliberia.org /Liberia_History.htm (4678 words)

	Grand Gedeh Association
		Julia Komai was jailed in 1979 by the late President William R. Tolbert, Jr., along with other political leaders for helping to organize a demonstration against his policies.
		About fifty years ago while still a child, she did not hesitate to join her uncle's (Oldman Zleh Borkay the Paramount Chief) conversation with the late President William V.S. Tubman during the latter’s visit to Zleh Town by asking a question in her broken-English.
		Julia's desire to be outspoken started from her very early age and turned out to be a blessing for her people.
	www.grandgedeh.com /gg-jkomai.htm (598 words)

	all things William
		~ William James "Will" Durant, Address, Harvard University (1926).
		~ William A. Brown, A Teacher and His Times (1940).
		Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits, but let us think only of their need, of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy with ourselves.
	allthingswilliam.com /sharing.html (1219 words)

	Global Connections . Liberia . Timeline PBS
		He is succeeded by his vice president of 19 years, William R. Tolbert, Jr.
		July 23, 1971: President Tubman dies, and Vice President Tolbert takes office.
		President Tolbert is assassinated, 13 Cabinet ministers are executed, and dozens of other government officials are imprisoned.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/timeline/time4.html (1168 words)

	About Liberia
		Two months later he died and was succeeded by William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberia's vice president since 1951.
		Tolbert and many of his aides were killed.
		In 1980 Tolbert's opponents, emboldened by a court decision recognizing them as an opposition party, openly called for his overthrow.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/tolson/liberia.htm (1831 words)

	July 26: A Commentary
		Unfortunately, since 1847 (except for the late William R. Tolbert, Jr.), none of Liberia’s political leaders has been able to envisage and attempt to address the true meaning of independence as was so aptly described by the late Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
		In his declamation, Nkrumah said, “Political independence without economic emancipation is tantamount to slavery.” Contemporary Liberian politicos and their sycophantic surrogates are especially bereft of discernment, and myopic.
		The root causes, supposedly, were buried in the past.
	www.copla.org /jamessnettter.htm (1013 words)

	Liberia
		In July 1971, while serving his sixth term as president, William V. Tubman died following surgery and was succeeded by his longtime associate, Vice President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
		Tolbert was ousted in a military coup on April 12, 1980, by Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, backed by the U.S. government.
		After 1920, considerable progress was made toward opening up the interior, a process that was speeded in 1951 by the establishment of a 43-mile (69-km) railroad to the Bomi Hills from Monrovia.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107718.html (865 words)

	"Putting Liberia First" - A Call to go Back to the Drawing Board
		In the early 70s, I was privileged to have served as General Farm Manager of the WILORIA Estate of President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
		After little over two years of service, President Tolbert was approached by the Ministry of Agriculture requesting that I be relieved of that assignment, be returned to the Central Agricultural Research Institute in preparation for graduate studies.
		Tolbert that Liberia comes first, and nothing comes before Liberia".
	www.theperspective.org /liberiafirst.html (810 words)

	Samuel Doe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On April 12, 1980, Doe staged a military coup, killing President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
		This marked the first time since Liberia's establishment as a nation that the country was governed by people of native African descent, and the early days of the regime were marked by mass executions of members of Tolbert's deposed government.
		The Krahn were part of the large majority of the Liberian population that was of native African descent, which had long been repressed by the Americo-Liberian elite, who were descended from the freed slaves-turned-colonists from America who founded Liberia in 1847.
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/Samuel_K._Doe.php (464 words)

	Albtph3.htm
		William R. Tolbert, Jr., Loise Butler, Carl Albert and others talking with one another.
		Joint session of Congress with Carl Albert, William R. Tolbert, Jr.
		Carl Albert shaking hands with William R. Tolbert, Jr.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/PhotoInventory/Albtph3.htm (3938 words)

	Northeast Times
		Doe’s supporters cited corruption in the regime of sitting President William R. Tolbert Jr.
		William K. Reeves did not vote in Tuesday’s presidential election, but not because he didn’t want to.
		After assassinating Tolbert in his presidential palace, Doe implemented a military dictatorship and began executing members of the former regime.
	www.northeasttimes.com /2004/1104/author.html (1122 words)

	List of assassinated persons
		William R. Tolbert, Jr, (1980), president of Liberia killed in military coup.
		Benigno Aquino Jr, (1983), opposition senator in the Philippines.
		William McKinley, (1901), President of the United States.
	www.enlightenweb.net /l/li/list_of_assassinated_persons.html (1663 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Editorial
		The 1980 assassination of President William R. Tolbert Jr.
		r R.K. Singh, the newly appointed Chairman of the Railway Board, faces the tough challenge of restoring the confidence of the travelling public in the 150-year-old Indian Railways.
		The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Sardar Irshad, has convicted a Sub-Editor of The Frontier Post, Munawar Mohsin, in a blasphemy case and sentenced him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 50,000.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030710/edit.htm (4834 words)

	Bibliography
		Guannu, Joseph Saye (ed.) Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of Liberia– From Joseph Jenkins Roberts to William Richard Tolbert, Jr, 1848 to 1976’ (New York, 1980).
		Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism, ‘I believe’, Excerpt from the Acceptance Speech by Dr. William R. Tolbert on Being Officially Informed of his Overwhelming Election as President of the Republic of Liberia For an Eight-Year Term (Monrovia, 1975).
		Williams, John Bolton, 'Aphorisms of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia' (Monrovia, n.y.).
	www.liberiapastandpresent.org /bibliography.htm (2830 words)

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