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William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until his assassination in 1980.
William R. Tolbert was a West African politician who was president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980. Tolbert graduated from Liberia College and entered politics in the early 1940s. In 1943 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where President William Tubman singled him out for the vice.
Sep 28, 2016 · William Richard Tolbert Jr. was the twentieth president of Liberia from 1971 to 1980, when he was killed in a coup led by then Liberian Army Sergeant Samuel Doe.
Apr 12, 2019 · On this day in 1980, William R. Tolbert Jr. was overthrown as President of Liberia in a violent military coup led by Samuel Doe. Tolbert began his political career as a member of Liberia’s...
The 1980 Liberian coup d'état happened on April 12, 1980, when President William Tolbert was overthrown and murdered in a violent coup. The coup was staged by an indigenous Liberian faction of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) under the command of Master Sergeant Samuel Doe.
May 27, 2014 · William Tolbert Jr. was a man of tremendous energy and efficiency. In addition to presiding over the Republic and the LBMEC, he was an active pastor, a farmer, a banker, a man of business and the very-present father and husband to a family of 10. He was indefatigable in every part of his life.
William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was the 20th President of Liberia from 1971 until he was assassinated in 1980 Liberian coup d'état in order by Samuel Doe. [1]
William R. Tolbert, Jr., an ordained Baptist pastor and former President of the Baptist World Alliance, was President Tubman’s modest (‘invisible’) Vice-President for nearly 20 years. He succeeded President Tubman (1944-1971) on July 23, 1971 after he had died in a London clinic.
William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until his assassination in 1980.
The Quest to Reform the African State: The Case of William R. Tolbert Jr of Liberia, and Jerry Rawlings of Ghana. In: Jallow, B.G. (eds) Leadership in Postcolonial Africa. Palgrave Studies in African Leadership.
