Allen Yancy

Nathaniel Allen Yancy (* 1881 in Harper, † February 21, 1941 in Nigeria ) was a Liberian politician and 1928-1930 Liberian Vice President. Yancy was a key figure of Fernando Po scandal.

Biography

Yancys ancestors lived in the area of Sparta, Hancock County in the U.S. state of Georgia and belonged to the Methodist Church. Depending on the writer changed the name spelling used in documents in " Yancey / Yancy / Yancie ", but always refers to the same family.

With the help of the American Colonization Society arrived in 1872, the first Yancys as emigrants in Harper: it was the family of the teacher Allen Yancy, his wife Mary and 6 children. The Liberian politician Nathaniel Allen Yancy was born in 1881 in Harper in Maryland County, he was a grandson of Allen Yancy. His father, also named Allen Yancy, was Reverent of the Methodist Church of Cape Palmas. After school, the only 24 years young Nathaniel Allen Yancy applied in 1905 to the office of justice of the peace in his home town of Harper. Yancy, who was also known as Americo- Liberians, the direct descendant of the militia, received at the Liberian Guard his military career education began and ended this service as a Captain ( Hauptmann ). After his military service was N. A. Yancy a well- paid job in a Liberian branch of the British trading company Woodin and Company, this place used Yancy to build his political career. In 1918 he was first assistant to the later Liberian President Edwin Barclay and joined the management of the Maryland County. Politically, he was a follower of the True Whig party and politicians, the Liberian state party. During this time he came into contact with the late President Charles DB King, 1920-1927 Yancy was elected superintendent of Maryland County. During this time he used his position to enrich himself by "private business" enormously, he became a key figure of Fernando Po scandal. In the presidential elections of 1927 King won by an unprecedented electoral fraud, he determined the politically still relatively inexperienced Yancy vice-president. Prompted by defeated presidential candidate of the opposite party of Fernando Po scandal became the state crisis. In December 1930, therefore, the King government resigned under pressure from the U.S. and many European governments. Yancy evaded by moving to Nigeria prosecution and died in 1941 in exile.