Samuel Doe

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Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951-1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the Liberian leader from 1980 to 1990, first as a military king and later as a politician.

While Doe, a master sergeant in Liberia (AFL), staged a violent coup d'etat in April 1980, leaving him de facto head of state.

During the coup, then president William Tolbert, and a significant portion of the True Whig Party's leadership were executed.

Doe then established the People's Redemption Council, assumeding the rank of general.Doe suspended the constitution and served as the country's military junta for five years.

He ordered an election and became Liberia's 21st President in 1985.

The election was marred by controversies as there was evidence of election manipulation.

Doe received assistance from the US; it was a strategic alliance due to his anti-Soviet role during the Cold War's years before the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1989. Doe, the country's first native head of state, was a member of the Krahn ethnic group, which was mainly rural.

Natives in the 1980s had often played a marginal role in society, dominated by the descendants of the Americo-Liberian Pioneers, who were mainly composed of free-born American blacks and slaves; the Pioneers were the settlers who established Liberia in the 1820s and led the nation's independence in 1847. Doe opened Liberian ports to Canadian, Chinese, and European ships.

This resulted in significant overseas investment from overseas shipping companies, as well as a reputation as a tax haven in Liberia. Doe attempted to legitimize his government with the enactment of a new constitution in 1984 and 1985.

However, resistance to his rule has increased, particularly after the 1985 elections, which were declared fraudulent by most foreign observers.

The United States continued to support him for political reasons. The United States became dissatisfied with Doe's government's entrenched mismanagement and the threat of Communism waning with the Cold War's waning, and began with cutting off essential foreign assistance in the late 1980s.

This, as well as Doe's unpopular rage against Krahns, put him in a precarious situation. Rebels engulfed Liberia through the Ivory Coast in December 1989 with the intention of capturing Doe.

On September 9, 1990, he was captured and overthrown.

During interrogation and execution, he was tortured.

In an internationally televised display, Samuel Doe was assassinated by his king, Prince Johnson, a former ally of Charles Taylor, killing him.

Early life

Samuel Kanyon Doe was born in Tuzon, a small inland village in Grand Gedeh County, on May 6, 1951. His family belonged to the Krahn people, a small ethnic group in this area. Doe completed elementary school and enrolled in a Baptist junior high school in Zwedru at the age of 16. He enlisted in the Armed Forces of Liberia two years ago, presumably in the hopes of obtaining a scholarship to a high school in Kakata, but instead he was assigned to military service. He was posted to a variety of service stations, including military academy education and commanding a variety of garrisons and jails in Monrovia over the ten years. He graduated high school by correspondence. On October 11, 1979, Doe was promoted to the rank of Master sergeant and made an administrator for Monrovia's Third Battalion, a post he had been serving for eleven months.

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