[2] Immediately before the 1980 Liberian coup d'état, Doe served as Nimba County's senior senator, but when the government was overthrown, he lost his office, was tried for treason, and imprisoned at the Barclay Training Center.
Rebel leader Samuel Doe (no relation) released him from prison at the end of June 1980 but forbade him to leave the country.
President Doe furthermore urged the Senate to attaint the three standard bearers, imprisoning them until 2011 and barring them from future involvement in politics.
[7] Doe died during the First Liberian Civil War; according to some sources, he was killed by NPFL soldiers,[8] apparently in August 1990.
[9] In 2004, Sirleaf – by then the president of the country – credited his death as one of the most prominent events that induced her to abandon her former membership in the National Patriotic Front of Liberia.