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William Tolbert Biography 2019. Our African icon for today is the motivational life of William Tolbert also called the preacher president of Liberia.

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William Richard Tolbert, jr. was born in Bensonville Liberia in May 1913. His grandfather originated from Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He was ordained a Baptist pastor and then became the president of the Baptist world Alliance. William Tolbert served as vice-president for twenty years and in 1971 became president after the death of his boss. President William Tolbert inherited a country with a political life controlled by less than 3% of the population. Tolbert publicly recognized that the fruits of foreign investments were unevenly divided and he gradually renegotiated the concession agreements. For this purpose he declared the concept of ‘Humanist Capitalism’. He also executed policies such as: ‘Total involvement for higher height’, ‘Rally time’, ‘From mat to mattress’, that was meant to improved the living conditions of the people and win the war against ignorance, disease and poverty. His progressive ideas were however meet with severe opposition within the political party. He was elected president in 1975 but in April of 1980 he was assassinated in a bloody coup that brought Liberia’s first tribal president Samuel Doe to power. Ironically, Tolbert was assassinated in the presidential palace the very first time he decided to spend the night there as he always went back to his home in Bensonville 25miles from Monrovia. William R. Tolbert popularly called the preacher president is the face of the 100 Liberian dollar note.