At the age of sixteen, Doe finished elementary school and enrolled at a Baptist junior high school in Zwedru. His family belonged to the Krahn people, a minority indigenous group important in this area.
Samuel Kanyon Doe was born on in Tuzon, a small inland village in Grand Gedeh County. Doe was captured and executed by Prince Johnson on September 9, 1990. The First Liberian Civil War began in December 1989 when the anti-Doe National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) led by Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from the Ivory Coast to overthrow him. Doe had support from the United States due to his anti- Soviet stance during the Cold War.ĭoe's rule was characterized by totalitarianism, corruption, and his favoritism towards ethnic Krahns, which led to growing opposition to his regime from the Liberian public and the United States. Doe opened Liberian ports to Canadian, Chinese and European ships which brought in considerable foreign investment and earned Liberia's reputation as a tax haven. Doe dissolved the PRC in 1984, and attempted to legitimize his regime with a new constitution and being elected president in the 1985 general election, which he won despite evidence of election fraud. Doe suspended the Constitution of Liberia, assumed the rank of general, and established the PRC as a provisional military government with himself as de facto head of state. ĭoe was a master sergeant in the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) when he staged the violent 1980 coup d'état that overthrew President William Tolbert and the True Whig Party, becoming the first non- Americo-Liberian leader of Liberia and ending 133 years of Americo-Liberian rule. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1984 and then as president from 1985 to 1990. Samuel Kanyon Doe ( – 9 September 1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the 21st president of Liberia from 1980 to 1990.
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