True Whig Party

The True Whig Party, also known as Liberian Whig Party, founded in 1869, is a right-wing political party, and is the oldest and most traditional party in Liberia.

She was, however, at the same time from 1878 until the coup by Samuel K. Doe in 1980, the only legal party in Liberia - Liberia thus was the first official one-party state in the world. Originally, the ideology of the party by the American Whig party was affected.

The party was founded in 1869 in the township of Clay - Ashland.

She ruled over a society in which the only -down from North America settlers and their descendants were citizens with voting rights, and often worked with the Masonic Order. The party supported a system of forced labor. In 1930, the Fernando Po scandal shook the power of the Americo- Liberians. With sales of toleration and aid of the Liberian Government traffickers young people from the Liberian hinterland as forced laborers to the owners of cacao plantations in Fernando Poo (now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea), which led to a five-year boycott of Liberia by the United States and Great Britain. Nevertheless, in the party saw the Western world a stabilizing force and invested in the country, which was ruled from 1944 to 1971 by William Tubman.

The party lost its influence after William Tolbert, Tubman's successor, was killed in April 1980 by opponents of oppression and corruption. As a result, now suppressed the former opposition, the True Whig Party. A large majority of its members and supporters then left the party, but still exists as a small party.

Current chairman is in exile in Philadelphia (USA ) live civil Jeffrey Harmon, he is (also) a graduate of the University of Liberia and took as a political scientist participated in numerous symposia on the reconstruction of Liberia.

The party participated in the Liberian elections, in 2005 as part of the Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia.