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    William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman (29 November 1895 – 23 July 1971) was a Liberian politician. He was the 19th president of Liberia and the longest-serving...
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    vice president of Liberia to William Tubman in 1952 and served in that position until he became President following Tubman's death in 1971. Tolbert's early...
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    Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made...
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  • abolitionist and political activist William Tubman, President of Liberia Winston Tubman, Liberian politician in law Tubman, a senior barrister of the historic...
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    Harriet Tubman (1822 – 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Tubman escaped slavery and rescued approximately 70 enslaved people,...
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  • William V. S. Tubman University, commonly known as Tubman University, is a public university located in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia. The university...
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    Liberian politics and society. The TWP's long term leader and President William Tubman was widely regarded as the father of modern Liberia. The TWP fell out...
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    infrastructure, which aided the country's wealth and development. President William Tubman encouraged economic and political changes that heightened the country's...
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    Antoinette Louise Padmore Tubman (24 February 1914 – 18 May 2011) was the wife of the Liberian politician William S. Tubman and the First Lady of Liberia...
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    Constitutional Referendum in 1945–46. In the presidential election, William Tubman of the True Whig Party was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed...
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    president in 1944, Americo-Liberian William Tubman was widely regarded as the father of modern Liberia.The Tubman administration embarked on a mass modernization...
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  • William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman Jr. is a Liberian politician and member of the Reformed United Liberia Party (RULP). He is the son of William Tubman...
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    3 January 1944, Barclay was Liberian President, to be succeeded by William Tubman. After the fall of Malaysia and Singapore to the Japanese during World...
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    Monrovia, the current building was constructed during the presidency of William Tubman, which lasted from 1944 to 1971. The construction started in 1961, and...
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    held in Liberia on 4 May 1971. In the presidential election, incumbent William Tubman of the True Whig Party was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed...
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    old, ruined mansion of William Tubman, President of Liberia, and the shell of the Morning Star Masonic Lodge, also built by Tubman. Harper was the capital...
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    held in Liberia on 4 May 1943 alongside a constitutional referendum. William Tubman of the True Whig Party was elected president, defeating James F. Cooper...
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    held in Liberia on 2 May 1967. In the presidential election, incumbent William Tubman of the True Whig Party was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed...
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    presidential election, William Tubman of the True Whig Party was re-elected for a fourth term, defeating independent candidate William O. Davies Bright, who...
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  • countless others. She also painted international leaders, including William Tubman, president of Liberia, Rabindranath Tagore the Nobel Prize-winning Bengali...
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  • who were owned by a prominent Maryland family. The Tubman family has produced such notable Liberians such as William Tubman and Winston Tubman. v t e...
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    held in Liberia on 7 May 1963. In the presidential election, incumbent William Tubman of the True Whig Party was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed...
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    British Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Gifford, Prosser; Louis, William Roger, eds. (1982). The transfer of power in Africa: decolonization, 1940–1960...
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    militarily involved in World War II in January 1944, with the election of William Tubman, at which time it declared war on Germany and Japan. Before this, Liberia...
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    Colonization Society. After the death of the long-serving president, William Tubman, in 1971, William Tolbert, Jr., became president. Tolbert's administration, like...
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    Liberia at the Executive Mansion. The flags were introduced in 1965 by William Tubman for the purpose of promoting the counties as meaningful entities. Their...
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  • training. The school was named after Reverend Arthur Tubman, he was the father of the president William Tubman and also General of the Liberian army. The training...
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    was more than one candidate in the presidential election. However, William Tubman of the True Whig Party was easily re-elected, winning over 99.5% of...
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    Israel also helped develop Liberia's medical capabilities. President William Tubman was a proponent of Israel, and throughout his term in office, he resisted...
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    Harriet Tubman National Historical Park is a US historical park in Auburn and Fleming, New York. Associated with the life of Harriet Tubman, it has three...
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