Ruth Perry

Ruth Sando Perry Fahnbulleh (born 16 July 1939 Slide Town, Liberia) was 1996-1997 President of Liberia.

Life

Ruth Sando Perry Fahnbulleh was born as the daughter of a Muslim family in the village of slide Town, in the Western Liberian Grand Cape Mount County. It belongs to the people of Vai. First she attended the local Islamic school and also graduated from the traditional training of a sand school.

In the 1950s, she attended Catholic boarding school Saint Theresa Convent High School of Liberia in Monrovia, where she earned a university entrance qualification. It was followed by a teacher training course at the University of Liberia in Monrovia and a job as Grundschullehrererin. She married the Judge at the District Court of Grand Cape Mount - McDonald Perry, mother of seven children and was retired to private life. In 1971 she got a job at the Liberian branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Monrovia, where she worked until the closure of the branch in 1985.

Senator

Already in the 1970s, Ruth SF Perry became interested in politics and joined the Unity Party. After the coup of Samuel K. Doe this began to break the existing dominance of the Americo -Liberian, many administrative and state officials of the Tolbert government fled abroad or were jailed. On the international pressure Doe responded in 1985 with a series of local and presidential elections, in which he won the victory. Ruth Perry also participated in the election and became the Senator of Grand Cape Mount County elected. The losing parties and foreign election observers doubted Does to election victory, there were demonstrations and political protests. Part of the opposition parties, including Perry's Unity Party, boycotted the parliamentary activity henceforth. Ruth Perry decided to withdraw from the Unity Party and so retained her Senate Square as an independent mandate wearer. She emphasized its political neutrality and therefore could defend their place in the Senate election in 1989.

A new coup shook Liberia in December 1989 and ended the rule of the Doe government. After months of civil war Amos Sawyer took over on 22 November 1990 the presidency of the transitional government ( Gouvernment of National Unity ), he had to exercise its governmental activities from exile in Ghana. Again broke out bloody battles between the warring parties and it was agreed in the peace negotiations that Ruth Perry could take on the role of interim president to prepare democratic elections in Liberia can.

Presidency

On September 3, 1996 Perry was sworn in as State President of the Council and took over the task of preparing for the scheduled on 30 May 1997 presidential election, to prevent a power vacuum as well as to guide the ongoing efforts to continue the peace process. Perry was replaced as established on 19 July 1997 by the election winner Charles Taylor, she had used the presidency to expand their international contacts and went to the handover of office in a foreign country. Since 2004, she found a job at a research institute of the University of Boston - the "African Presidential Archives and Research Center ".

Initiatives

Ruth Perry sought as senator and later President to improve the living conditions of women in Liberia and rights. She founded the Peace Now organization and is a founding member of the Women's Development Association of Liberia.

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