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1971-1980 Following Tubman's death in 1971, Tolbert succeeded him as president. To the outside world, this peaceful transition seemed to signal political stability in Liberia, remarkable in an Africa where political turmoil was the norm.
1980 Harrison Pennoh is best known for allegedly killing then President of Liberia, William Tolbert, on April 12, 1980.
1980 Liberian coup d'etat
1980 William Tolbert assassinated
2008 In August 2008, before a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Monrovia, Doe's former justice minister, Councillor Chea Cheapoo - who contested the 2011 Liberia Presidential elections - alleged the CIA had provided a map of the...
Tolbert was born in Bensonville, Liberia. An Americo-Liberian, he was the grandson of a former American slave from South Carolina who emigrated to Liberia in the Liberian exodus of 1878.