Charles Cecil Dennis was a Liberia

Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

n political figure who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President William Tolbert from 1973 until the coup d'état by Samuel Doe

Samuel Doe

Samuel Kanyon Doe was the 21st President of Liberia, serving from 1986 until his assassination in 1990. He had previously served as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council from 1980 to 1986. He was the first indigenous head of state in Liberian history.Doe was a part of a rural tribe in inland...

 on April 12, 1980. Along with other members of Tolbert's Cabinet, he was promptly put on trial and executed by firing squad ten days after the coup.

He was preceded as Foreign Minister by Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks

Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks

Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks was a politician, diplomat and university president in Liberia. Weeks was the Secretary of Liberian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1954 and 1955. From 1960 to 1972, Weeks was President of the University of Liberia and from 1961 until 1972, he was...

 and eventually replaced by Gabriel Bacchus Matthews.

External links

• The Liberian Crisis:1980-1996 containing a picture of Dennis