Peter Lorkulah Naigow (1942–14 November 2011) was a Liberian politician. He was born in 1942 in

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. He got a journalism degree from the

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, and worked as a radio broadcaster. He was a member of the special investigative committee on reform at the end of the Tolbert administration. He served as assistant minister of information from 1977 to 1980, minister of labour and in other positions in

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's administration. He was elected as

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on 19 April 1991 to the interim administration of

Amos Sawyer Amos Claudius Sawyer (15 June 1945 – 16 February 2022) was a Liberian politician and academic who served as interim president of Liberia from 22 November 1990 to 7 March 1994. He was voted into office by 35 leaders representing seven political ...

. He resigned on 15 August 1991, after a falling out with

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when the

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left the interim government. He was one of vice presidential candidates in the 1997 presidential elections.

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