Charles Harmon
Charles H. Harmon (died 1886) was the vice president of Liberia from 3 January 1876 to 7 January 1878.
Biography[]
Harmon immigrated to Liberia at age six. Soon after this, he was made an orphan. Harmon was converted to Methodism by minister Francis Burns.[1]
Harmon was ordained a deacon in 1869, and was admitted to the Liberia Annual Mission Conference in 1872. He served as president of the Conference in 1879, 1880, and 1883.[1]
Harmon served in the Legislature of Liberia for ten years.[1] In 1875, he was elected vice president of Liberia under Republican President James Spriggs Payne, during Payne's second term in office.[2] Payne and Harmon were sworn in on 3 January 1876.[3] On 1 January 1878, Payne was suspended from office following an impeachment by the national legislature. Harmon served as acting president of Liberia for six days, until 7 January 1878 when Anthony W. Gardiner was sworn in as president.[4]
Harmon died in 1886 in Cape Palmas.[1][5]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society (1887). Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 68. p. 41.
- ^ Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. pp. 258–259.
- ^ American Colonization Society (1877). Sixtieth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society. p. 12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ American Colonization Society (July 1886). The African Repository, Volume 62. p. 100.
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