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Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
NPSIA
Former name
School of International Affairs
Type
Public
Established
1965
Academic affiliation
Carleton University
Director
Dane Rowlands
Students
100+
Location
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Affiliations
APSIA (full member)
Website
NPSIA Website
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA (/nɪpˈsiːə/ nip-SEE-ə)) is a professional school of international affairs at Carleton University that was founded in 1965. The school is housed in Richcraft Hall, on Carleton's campus in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Students, alumni and faculty of NPSIA are referred to as NPSIAns (/ˈnɪpsiən/ NIP-see-ən).
NPSIA is Canada's oldest school of international affairs, founded during what is commonly considered a golden age of Canadian diplomacy. The school offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of global issues, divided into six fields. NPSIA is the only full Canadian member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, a group of the world's top schools in international affairs.
NPSIA is well regarded within the international affairs community, and admission to the school is highly selective. In 2007, a poll of Canadian academics, intended to determine the best professional masters programs in international affairs, ranked NPSIA at No. 2, tied with Georgetown University, and ahead of programs at universities like Harvard and Columbia.[1][2] A 2014 survey of Canadian academics in international affairs confirmed NPSIA as the most recommended school in Canada for students seeking a career in policy.[3]
Contents
1 History
1.1 Creation of the school
1.2 Lester Pearson
1.3 1970s and 1980s
1.4 21st century
2 Graduate programs
2.1 Master of Arts
2.2 PhD
2.3 Joint and dual degrees
3 Research units and publications
4 Student life
4.1 Benefit soirée
5 Notable alumni
5.1 Canadian government and politics
5.2 Foreign governments
6 References
7 External links
History[edit]
Creation of the school[edit]
Carleton University President Davidson Dunton announced the creation of a graduate school of international affairs on February 18, 1965. The school was established, in part, due to a $400,000 grant from Senator Norman Paterson.[4] Paterson, a businessman who made his fortune in the shipping and grain industries, was also a member of Carleton’s Board of Governors, and had previously donated $500,000 to Carleton.[5] At the time of its creation, the new graduate school was called the "School of International Affairs." It was renamed in 1974 to honour its principal financial benefactor, Senator Paterson.[6]
Classes began at the School of International Affairs in September 1966. The first director of the school was Norman Robertson, a distinguished public servant and diplomat. Prior to his appointment at the school, Robertson had served variously as Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to Cabinet, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and twice as the Under-secretary of External Affairs.[7] Robertson did not enjoy teaching and was reportedly not an effective teacher.[8] Enrolment at the School in the early years numbered over 30.[9]
Lester Pearson[edit]
The school acquired its most prominent faculty member in 1968 with the appointment of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson as a lecturer. The newly opened school was a natural fit for Pearson, who had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for trying (without significant impact) to end the Suez conflict. Senator Paterson later contended that the creation of the school and thoughts about how Pearson would spend his retirement were "intimately bound together in [the Senator’s] mind."[10] Pearson had turned down multiple teaching offers from schools in the United States before beginning his appointment at the School on July 1, 1968, only months after stepping down as Prime Minister.[9]
At the school, Pearson taught a three-hour seminar on foreign relations, with a particular focus on collective security. Though Pearson’s teaching style was largely informal, he took his commitment as a professor seriously, making up missed seminars even as his health began to fail. Pearson once even declined an invitation from U.S. President Richard Nixon to dine at the White House on account of his teaching duties. Pearson also enjoyed engaging with students, though he was apparently not an easy marker and seldom saw fit to make comments on students’ work.[11][12]
Pearson also used his time at Carleton to work on his memoirs, until he died in 1972. Pearson is buried in the same cemetery as his friend, and the school's first director, Norman Robertson. Following his death, friends of Pearson raised funds to establish the Lester B. Pearson Chair of International Affairs at the school. The first person to hold the chair position was Arnold Cantwell Smith, a Canadian diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.[13]
1970s and 1980s[edit]
NPSIA made the news in 1978 because of a brief controversy after Philip Uren, a Carleton professor of geography, accepted a paid trip from the government of South Africa to speak and conduct research. This was controversial given the government of South Africa's Apartheid policy. The NPSIA Faculty Council was concerned that Uren had represented himself as speaking on behalf of Carleton University, and passed a resolution censuring Uren for damaging NPSIA’s reputation.[14] The incident was complicated by the fact that Uren also served as the director of the Paterson Centre, Carleton’s administrative centre for international exchanges. His dual role as professor and administrator sparked a debate over academic freedom, and how that freedom should extent to faculty serving in administrative roles.[15] Uren eventually resigned as director of the Paterson Centre, though he remained a geography professor at Carleton.[16]
NPSIA first published its "Canada Among Nations" series in 1984. The annual series brings together leading members of the international affairs community for an assessment of the country’s foreign policy. The books are used in university courses on foreign policy and international relations, and "have become a major publication of record on Canada’s policies and actions in the world." The volumes, which include topics such as arms control, climate change, and international political economy, have often been edited by prominent NPSIA faculty members, including by Maureen Appel Molot, Brian Tomlin, Fen Osler Hampson, Norman Hillmer, Jean Daudelin and Dane Rowlands.[17]
21st century[edit]
In 2008, former Canadian diplomat William Barton donated $3 million to the school to establish the William and Jeanie Barton Chair in International Affairs. The chair honours Barton, who served as President of the UN Security Council during Canada's lead in the 1970s, and his wife Jeanie. The first and current chair holder is Trevor Findlay.[18]
NPSIA moved from its traditional home on Carleton's campus in Dunton Tower to the new River Building in 2012. The school's new space includes a new resource centre named in honour of William and Jeanie Barton. The resource centre contains computers, printers, workrooms, unique reference material including past theses by NPSIAns, and a balcony on the top floor of the River Building. The resource centre is accessible only to NPSIA students, staff and faculty.[19]
Dane Rowlands is the director of NPSIA, having succeeded Fen Hampson in 2012.[20]
Graduate programs[edit]
International affairs is not a major available to undergraduate students, although the school does offer a handful of courses open to upper-year students at the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs. The school offers three different Masters level programs, and one PhD level program.
Master of Arts[edit]
The Master of Arts in International Affairs is NPSIA's most popular degree program, with about 100 students graduating with the degree each year. The program offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of international affairs, and many of the classes are focused on policy. NPSIA's MA program is organized around seven fields:
Conflict Analysis and Conflict Resolution ("Conflict")
Intelligence and National Security ("INS")
Development Projects and Planning ("DPP")
International Development Policy ("IDP")
International Organizations and Global Public Policy ("IOGP")
International Economic Policy ("IEP")
Project Management and Humanitarian Assistance ("PMHA")
To graduate, NPSIA M.A. students must complete 5.0 full credits, including one economics course, at least one cluster course and the introductory methods course. Students must also demonstrate an intermediate knowledge of a major second language. For instance, in French, students must meet the B1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
PhD[edit]
The relatively new PhD program at NPSIA requires that students complete at least 10 full credits, which includes the 4.5 credits worth of dissertation work. The PhD program has three fields of study:
International Conflict Management and Resolution
International Development Policy
International Economic Policy
Joint and dual degrees[edit]
NPSIA offers an M.A./JD degree in conjunction with the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law. Students must apply to both the JD and the M.A. programs separately and gain admission to each program to be admitted into the joint program. M.A./JD students do one year at UOttawa before completing their second year at NPSIA.
The school has also partnered with Carleton's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to offer the Master of Infrastructure Protection and International Security (MIPIS). This degree combines infrastructure engineering with international affairs to address issues at the nexus of national security and engineering.
Research units and publications[edit]
As a hub of international affairs-related research, NPSIA houses a number of different research centres. Each is a unique body tasked with producing research on a specific topic or collection of related topics. Many NPSIA professors are actively involved in these research centres. NPSIA is affiliated with the following research centres:
The Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS)[21]
The Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance (CCTC)[22]
Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS)[23]
Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL)[24]
In addition to these research units, the school is home to two academic journals. The first, the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, is a peer-reviewed journal traditionally published three times per year. Founded in 1992, the journal offers analysis of foreign policy issues from a Canadian perspective, and many NPSIA faculty members have been published in the journal.[25] The second journal that NPSIA houses is the Paterson Review of International Affairs, a student-managed journal that publishes the best articles submitted by graduate students in international relations, political science and related fields. Formally called E-merge, the journal publishes once a year and is edited by a staff of NPSIA students.[26] NPSIA is also well known for publishing Canada Among Nations, a biannual survey of Canadian foreign policy and Canada's involvement in the international community. The text has come to be incorporated in many university courses and is widely read by policy makers.[27]
Student life[edit]
The NPSIA Students’ Association seeks to holistically address the needs of NPSIA students. Through biweekly meetings under the leadership of the co-presidents, the Students’ Association works to be a liaison between the NPSIA faculty/administration and the student body; to plan social, academic, and professional events; to support students in their academic and professional pursuits; and to open and facilitate lines of communication between NPSIA students, staff, faculty, and alumni–as well as with the Ottawa community and other student groups and associations with an interest in international affairs.
Benefit soirée[edit]
The NPSIA Benefit Soirée, usually referred to as "Soirée", is an annual benefit dinner put on by first year MA students since 1997.[28] The goal of Soirée is to raise awareness of a key global issue while connecting students with important members of the international affairs community in Ottawa. Generally composed of a dinner followed by a keynote address, the event raises money for a different charity each year, and is the major event of the NPSIA social season. Past keynote speakers include Michael Ignatieff, former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, the founder of War Child Canada Samantha Nutt and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Izzeldin Abuelaish. The event is well attended by NPSIA students and professors, and by members of Ottawa's diplomatic community and the wider international affairs community.
Notable alumni[edit]
There are over 2,000 NPSIA alumni in a wide variety of positions within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. NPSIA alumni are represented by the NPSIA Alumni Association, which has an active chapter in Ottawa and contacts in a variety of major world cities.
Canadian government and politics[edit]
Margaret Biggs, Former President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)[29]
Peter Boehm, Deputy Minister of International Development
Perry Calderwood, High Commissioner to Pakistan[30]
Ariel Delouya, Former Ambassador to Tunisia[31]
Wendy Drukier, Former Ambassador to Costa Rica[32]
Greg Giokas, Former High Commissioner to Pakistan[33]
Elissa Golberg, Assistant Deputy Minister. Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. Former Representative of Canada in Kandahar[34]
Michael Gort, Ambassador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras[35]
Jim Judd, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) (2004-2009)
David McLaughlin, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Niki Ashton, Member of Parliament for Churchill, Manitoba
Alexandra Bugailiskis, Ambassador to the Republics of Italy,San Marino and Albania, High Commissioner to Malta and Permanent Representative to the WFP, FAO and IFAD, Former Ambassador to Syria, Cuba, and Poland and High Commissioner to Cyprus [36]
J. Gregory Goldhawk, Ambassador to Mongolia
Kevin Hamilton, Ambassador to Romania
Ron Hoffmann, Former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand
Deanna Horton, Former Ambassador to Vietnam[37]
Sara Hradecky, High Commissioner to Kenya[38]
James Lambert, Former Ambassador to the Netherlands[39]
Brian Oak, Former Ambassador to Ecuador[40]
Guillermo Rishchynski, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Christopher Shapardanov, Former Ambassador to Finland[41]
Graham Shantz, Former Ambassador to Spain[42]
Artur Wilczynski, Ambassador to Norway[43]
Foreign governments[edit]
Jorge Castaneda, Peruvian Ambassador to Canada[44]
Frances Guy, Former British Ambassador to Lebanon and Yemen
Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett, Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Barbados
Andreas Kakouris, Cypriot Diplomat. Former Ambassador to Sweden and Latvia[45]
E Weidi N. Mwasakafyuka, Former Tanzanian Ambassador to France[46]
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External links[edit]
Official NPSIA blog
NPSIA Students' Association (NSA) blog
NPSIA Benefit Soirée page (archived information from 2012/2013 event)
Coordinates: 45°22′56″N 75°41′46″W / 45.38233°N 75.69618°W / 45.38233; -75.69618
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Jewel Taylor
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Nathaniel Brander
Formation
Constitution of Liberia
July 26, 1847
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The Vice President of the Republic of Liberia is the second-highest executive official in Liberia, and one of only two elected executive offices along with the President. The Vice President is elected on the same ticket with the president to a six-year term. In the event of the death, resignation or removal of the president, the Vice President ascends to the presidency, which he or she holds for the remainder of their predecessor's term. The Vice President also serves as the President of the Senate and may cast a vote in the event of a tie. The current Vice President is Jewel Taylor, serving under President George Weah.
Contents
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1 Qualifications
2 Succession
3 Key
4 List
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References
Qualifications[edit]
Article 52 of the Constitution lays out the qualifications for candidates for vice president. To be eligible for office under the current Constitution, a vice presidential candidate must:
be a natural born citizen of Liberia;
be at least thirty-five years old;
own real property valued at least $25,000;
have resided in Liberia for at least ten years.
Additionally, the vice president may not reside in the same county as the president.
Succession[edit]
Under Article 63(b), the Vice President ascends to the presidency in the event of president's death, resignation, impeachment, or when the president is declared incapable of carrying out the duties of the office. In the event of ascension, the Vice President serves as president for the remainder of his or her predecessor's term, though this period is not considered a term for the purposes of term limits to the presidency. According to Article 63(a), should the president-elect die or become otherwise incapacitated before his or her inauguration, the Vice President-elect is sworn in as president in their place, though a term of this nature does constitute a term for the purposes of determining term limits.
To date, five Vice Presidents have ascended to the presidency, either due to the president's death, resignation, or removal from office: James Skivring Smith, Alfred Francis Russell, William D. Coleman, William R. Tolbert Jr., and Moses Blah.
There have been twelve vacancies in the office, the first of which occurred between October 26, 1871 and January 1, 1872; after the ascension of James Skivring Smith to the office of President. The most recent vacancy was between August 11, 2003 and January 16, 2006; after the ascension of Moses Blah to the office of President and prior to the election of Joseph Boakai.
Key[edit]
Political parties
Republican Party
True Whig Party
National Democratic Party
National Patriotic Party
Unity Party
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No.
Vice President
(Birth–Death)
Term of Office
Party
Term
(Election)
President
Notes
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Nathaniel Brander
(1796–1860) 000000001848-01-03-0000January 3, 1848 000000001850-01-07-0000January 7, 1850 Independent 1.
(1847)
Roberts
2
Anthony D. Williams
(1799–1860) 000000001850-01-07-0000January 7, 1850 000000001854-01-02-0000January 2, 1854 Independent 2.
(1849)
3.
(1851)
3
Stephen Allen Benson
(1816–1865) 000000001854-01-02-0000January 2, 1854 000000001856-01-07-0000January 7, 1856 Independent 4.
(1853)
4
Beverly Page Yates
(1811–1883) 000000001856-01-07-0000January 7, 1856 000000001860-01-02-0000January 2, 1860 Independent 5.
(1855)
Benson
6.
(1857)
5
Daniel Bashiel Warner
(1815–1880) 000000001860-01-02-0000January 2, 1860 000000001864-01-04-0000January 4, 1864 Independent 7.
(1859)
8.
(1861)
6
James M. Priest
(?–1883) 000000001864-01-04-0000January 4, 1864 000000001868-01-06-0000January 6, 1868 Republican Party 9.
(1863)
Warner
10.
(1865)
7
Joseph Gibson
(1823–?) 000000001868-01-06-0000January 6, 1868 000000001870-01-03-0000January 3, 1870 Republican Party 11.
(1867)
Payne
8
James Skivring Smith
(1825–1884) 000000001870-01-03-0000January 3, 1870 000000001871-10-26-0000October 26, 1871
(Ascended) True Whig Party 12.
(1869)
Roye [note 1]
Vacancy by ascension 000000001871-10-26-0000October 26, 1871 000000001872-01-01-0000January 1, 1872
Smith
9
Anthony W. Gardiner
(1820–1885) 000000001872-01-01-0000January 1, 1872 000000001876-01-03-0000January 3, 1876 Republican Party 13.
(1871)
Roberts
14.
(1873)
10
Charles Harmon
(1832–?) 000000001876-01-03-0000January 3, 1876 000000001878-01-07-0000January 7, 1878 Republican Party 15.
(1875)
Payne [note 2]
11
Alfred Francis Russell
(1817–1884) 000000001878-01-07-0000January 7, 1878 000000001883-01-20-0000January 20, 1883
(Ascended) True Whig Party 16.
(1877)
Gardiner [note 3]
17.
(1879)
18.
(1881)
Vacancy by ascension 000000001883-01-20-0000January 20, 1883 000000001884-01-07-0000January 7, 1884
Russell
12
James Thompson
(?–?) 000000001884-01-07-0000January 7, 1884 000000001892-01-04-0000January 4, 1892 True Whig Party 19.
(1883)
Johnson
20.
(1885)
21.
(1887)
22.
(1889)
13
William D. Coleman
(1842–1908) 000000001892-01-04-0000January 4, 1892 000000001896-11-12-0000November 12, 1896
(Ascended) True Whig Party 23.
(1891)
Cheeseman [note 4]
24.
(1893)
25.
(1895)
Vacancy by ascension 000000001896-11-12-0000November 12, 1896 000000001898-01-03-0000January 3, 1898
Coleman
14
Joseph J. Ross
(1842–1899) 000000001898-01-03-0000January 3, 1898 000000001899-10-24-0000October 24, 1899
(Died) True Whig Party 26.
(1897) [note 5]
27.
(1899)
Vacancy by death 000000001899-10-24-0000October 24, 1899 000000001902-01-06-0000January 6, 1902
Gibson
15
Joseph D. Summerville
(1860–1905) 000000001902-01-06-0000January 6, 1902 000000001905-07-27-0000July 27, 1905
(Died) True Whig Party 28.
(1901) [note 6]
29.
(1903)
A. Barclay
Vacancy by death 000000001905-07-27-0000July 27, 1905 000000001906-01-01-0000January 1, 1906
16
James Jenkins Dossen
(1866–1924) 000000001906-01-01-0000January 1, 1906 000000001912-01-01-0000January 1, 1912 True Whig Party 30.
(1905)
31.
(1907)
17
Samuel George Harmon
(1861–1925) 000000001912-01-01-0000January 1, 1912 000000001920-01-05-0000January 5, 1920 True Whig Party 32.
(1911)
Howard
33.
(1915)
18
Samuel Alfred Ross
(1870–1929) 000000001920-01-05-0000January 5, 1920 000000001924-01-01-0000January 1, 1924 True Whig Party 34.
(1919)
King
19
Henry Too Wesley
(1877–1944) 000000001924-01-01-0000January 1, 1924 000000001928-01-02-0000January 2, 1928 True Whig Party 35.
(1923)
20
Allen Yancy
(1881–1941) 000000001928-01-02-0000January 2, 1928 000000001930-12-03-0000December 3, 1930
(Resigned) True Whig Party 36.
(1927) [note 7]
Vacancy by resignation 000000001930-12-03-0000December 3, 1930 1930
E. Barclay
21
James Skivring Smith, Jr.
(1891–1950) 1930 000000001944-01-03-0000January 3, 1944 True Whig Party
37.
(1931)
38.
(1939)
22
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson
(1896–1969) 000000001944-01-03-0000January 3, 1944 000000001952-01-01-0000January 1, 1952 True Whig Party 39.
(1943)
Tubman
23
William R. Tolbert Jr.
(1913–1980) 000000001952-01-01-0000January 1, 1952 000000001971-07-23-0000July 23, 1971
(Ascended) True Whig Party 40.
(1951)
41.
(1955)
42.
(1959)
43.
(1963)
44.
(1967)
Vacancy by ascension 000000001971-07-23-0000July 23, 1971 April 1972 45.
(1971)
Tolbert [note 8]
24
James Edward Greene
(1914–1977) April 1972 000000001977-07-22-0000July 22, 1977
(Died) True Whig Party
46.
(1975)
Vacancy by death 000000001977-07-22-0000July 22, 1977 000000001977-10-31-0000October 31, 1977
25
Bennie Dee Warner
(1935–) 000000001977-10-31-0000October 31, 1977 000000001980-04-12-0000April 12, 1980
(Deposed) True Whig Party [note 9]
Vacancy due to coup d'état 000000001980-04-12-0000April 12, 1980 000000001986-01-06-0000January 6, 1986 [note 10]
26
Harry Moniba
(1937–2004) 000000001986-01-06-0000January 6, 1986 000000001990-09-09-0000September 9, 1990
(Deposed) National Democratic Party 47.
(1985)
Doe
Vacancy due to First Liberian Civil War 000000001990-09-09-0000September 9, 1990 000000001997-08-02-0000August 2, 1997 [note 11]
27
Enoch Dogolea
(1951–2000) 000000001997-08-02-0000August 2, 1997 000000002000-06-24-0000June 24, 2000
(Died) National Patriotic Party 48.
(1997)
Taylor
Vacancy by death 000000002000-06-24-0000June 24, 2000 000000002000-07-24-0000July 24, 2000
28
Moses Blah
(1947–2013) 000000002000-07-24-0000July 24, 2000 000000002003-08-11-0000August 11, 2003 National Patriotic Party
Vacancy by ascension 000000002003-08-11-0000August 11, 2003 000000002003-10-03-0000October 3, 2003
Blah
Vacancy due to 2003 Accra Accord 000000002003-10-03-0000October 3, 2003 000000002006-01-16-0000January 16, 2006 [note 12]
29
Joseph Boakai
(1944–) 000000002006-01-16-0000January 16, 2006 000000002018-01-22-0000January 22, 2018 Unity Party 49.
(2005)
Sirleaf
50.
(2011)
30
Jewel Taylor
(1963–) 000000002018-01-22-0000January 22, 2018 Incumbent National Patriotic Party 51.
(2017)
Weah
See also[edit]
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Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ President Roye was forcibly removed from office on October 26, 1871. Vice President Smith was sworn in and served the remaining two months of Roye's presidency with no vice president.
Jump up ^ On 1 January 1878, six days prior to the inauguration of Anthony Gardiner as president, the House of Representatives impeached and suspended President Payne from office. Vice President Harmon served as acting president for the final six days of the administration.[1]
Jump up ^ President Gardiner resigned from office after falling seriously ill. Vice President Russell served as president for the remaining year of Gardiner's term with no vice president.
Jump up ^ President Cheeseman died in office. Vice President Coleman served as president for the remainder of Cheeseman's term with no vice president, and then was elected president in his own right in 1897 with Joseph J. Ross as his vice president.
Jump up ^ Vice President Ross died in 1900, leaving President Coleman without a vice president. On December 11, 1900, Coleman resigned, and Secretary of State Gibson served as president for the remainder of Coleman's term without a vice president, before being elected in his own right in 1901 with Joseph D. Summerville as his vice president.
Jump up ^ Vice President Summerville died in July 27, 1905 following his and President Gibson's reelection but prior to their inauguration. As no mechanism existed for replacing a vice president, which would have left Gibson without a vice president for his entire term, a constitutional amendment was ratified that year allowing for the president to call a special election in the absence of a vice president to fill the vacancy. J. J. Dossen won the special election in 1905 and was inaugurated along with Gibson in 1906.
Jump up ^ Both President King and Vice President Yancy resigned on December 3, 1930. Secretary of State Barclay was inaugurated as president, and Vice President James Skivring Smith, Jr. was elected in a special election soon after.
Jump up ^ President Tubman died following his and Tolbert's reelection in 1971, but prior to his inauguration. Tolbert served the remainder of Tubman's sixth term before being inaugurated for Tubman's elected seventh term.
Jump up ^ Warner was ousted along with the rest of the government by the Armed Forces of Liberia.
Jump up ^ During 1980-1981 Thomas Weh Syen was Doe's second-in-command in the military administration. Weh Syen was in charge on vice-presidential duties.[2] After Weh Syen was executed on Doe's orders, he was replaced as Vice Head of State by J. Nicholas Podier.[3]
Jump up ^ Roland Diggs served as Vice President in the administration of Amos Sawyer from August 1990 to April 1991.[4] He was succeeded in April 1991 by Peter Naigow,[5] who also resigned. There were many Deputy Chairman of Council of State of Liberia 1994-1997, including Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper, Dexter Bah Tahyor, Isaac Musa, Charles Taylor, G. V. Kromah, George Boley, Oscar Jaryee Quiah and Tamba Tailor.[6]
Jump up ^ During this time, the National Transitional Government of Liberia was in charge of government duties. Vice-Chairman Wesley Momo Johnson assumed the duties and powers of the office of vice-president during part of this period.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Sims, James L.; Seymour, George L.; Benjamin J. K. Anderson; James Fairhead (2003). African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 72. ISBN 0-253-34194-9.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Weh-Syen Weeps?" The Monrovia Express 1981-08-12: 1/8.
Jump up ^ [1]
Jump up ^ [2]
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-03-29. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
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