| LC control no. | n 84198886 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Doe, Samuel K. (Samuel Kanyon) |
| See also | Liberia. President (1980-1990 : Doe) |
| Associated country | Liberia |
| Birth date | 1951 |
| Death date | 1986-01-06 |
| Place of birth | Tuzon (Liberia) |
| Place of death | Monrovia (Libreria) |
| Affiliation | University of Liberia Liberia. People's Redemption Council |
| Profession or occupation | Armed Forces--Officers Heads of state |
| Found in | His Statement by the head of state ... 1983: cover (Samuel K. Doe) prelim. p. (Dr. Samuel Kanyon Doe; Republic of Liberia) State of the nation, 1985 (C-in-C Dr. Samuel K. Doe, Head of State and President of the Interim National Assembly) Dunn, D. Historical dictionary of Liberia, 2001 (Doe died in 1990) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Doe, Samuel Kanyon; military leader and twenty-first president of Liberia; born 1951 in Tuzon, Liberia; earned a BA degree from the University of Liberia (1988); enlisted into the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL); headed military junta, the Peoples' Redemption Council (PRC); his route to power was through a bloody military coup d'état staged in (1980) resulting in the overthrow of the government of President William R. Tolbert Jr.; dissolved the PRC, replacing it with an Interim National Assembly (INA), and named himself president of the INA 1984; sworn in as the first president of the Second Republic on 6 January 1986; died in 1990 in Monrovia, Libreria) |
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