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Reginald Goodridge (born 11 November 1952) is a Liberian politician and former government minister. Goodridge was born in
Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ...
in 1952. He was a member of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic party and served as a press secretary to Taylor following his election as Liberian president. He also served as Liberian minister for Culture, Information, Tourism of Liberia. Following the end of the
Second Liberian Civil War The Second Liberian Civil War was a civil war in the West African nation of Liberia that lasted from 1999 to 2003. The war was mainly caused by transition failures after the First Civil War, especially the peace-building process which would res ...
, Goodridge argued that there would be "bloodbath" in the country if Taylor was forced to resign. In 2005, Goodridge left the National Patriotic Party and joined the new version of the
True Whig Party The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and Africa as a whole. Founded in 1869 by primarily darker-skinned Americo-Liberians in rural areas, its historic rival was the Re ...
(TWP). He was appointed as the TWP's chairman in 2015. In 2021, Goodridge led a campaign for the reburial and an official memorial service, for TWP government officials who were killed during the
1980 Liberian coup d'état The 1980 Liberian coup d'état happened on April 12, 1980, when President William Tolbert of Liberia was overthrown and murdered in a violent coup. The coup was staged by an indigenous Liberian faction of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) u ...
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