BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-LIBERIAN " BENNIE DEE WARNER " IS A LIBERIAN POLITICIAN AND CLERGYMAN, WHO SERVED AS THE COUNTRY'S VICE-PRESIDENT FROM 1977 TO 1980 : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

 BLACK          SOCIAL         HISTORY                                                                                                                                        Bennie Dee Warner

Bennie Dee Warner is a Liberian politician and clergyman. He served as the country's Vice President from 1977 to 1980.^[1]

Born on 30 April 1935 in Careysburg District, Montserrado County, Warner was a bishop in the United Methodist Church for four years before he was plucked from relative obscurity to become Vice President in 1977, succeeding James Edward Greene.^[2] Warner was attending a conference of Methodist bishops in Nashville, Indiana when a military coup led  Doe overthrew the Liberian government on 12 April 1980.^[3] Warner attempted to form a government in exile in Ivory Coast to challenge the coup makers.^[4] A month after he was evicted from political power, he was removed from ecclesiastical power: Methodist minister D. Sieh Doe proclaimed the bishopric vacant, and for six months the seat was empty and the church run by Warner's administrative assistant.^[5] On 6 December, the Annual Conference elected as his successor Alfred S. Kula, formerly the dean of the Gbarnga School of Theology. Warner had been the second bishop in the history of the church in Liberia.^[6] Four years after Warner was overtclemency for him and announced that he was free to return to Liberia.^[7]

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Bishop Warner later established residence in Oklahoma City, where he taught at the United Methodist Oklahoma City University and pastored Quayle United Methodist Church. He then served in Syracuse N.Y, before being appointed District Superintendent of the Camden District of the United Methodist Church in Arkansas.^{[verification needed]}