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Charles D.B. King

Charles Dunbar Burgess King (1875 1961) was a politician in Liberia. He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980. He served as President from 1920 until 1930.

King was the foreign minister of Liberia from 1912 until he was elected President in 1920. Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig party. He was challenged in the presidential election of 1927 by Thomas J. Faulkner . After losing the election, Faulkner accused many members of the True Whig Party government of recruiting and selling contract labor as slaves. A report by the League of Nations by a commission under the leadership of British jurist Cuthbert Christy , supported many of Faulkner's allegations, and implicated many government officials, including vice-president Allen B. Yancey . Yancey and King resigned over the scandal in December 1930.


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