Doe, Samuel K. (Samuel Kanyon)
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found: His Statement by the head of state ... 1983:cover (Samuel K. Doe) prelim. p. (Dr. Samuel Kanyon Doe; Republic of Liberia)
found: State of the nation, 1985 (C-in-C Dr. Samuel K. Doe, Head of State and President of the Interim National Assembly)
found: Dunn, D. Historical dictionary of Liberia, 2001(Doe died in 1990)
found: 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'Γ©tat 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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1985-01-07: new
2025-08-05: revised
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