Charles Harmon

Charles H. Harmon (died 1886) was the tenth vice president of Liberia from January 3, 1876, to January 7, 1878.

Biography

Born in the United States, 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 presidency.^[2] Payne and Harmon were sworn in on January 3, 1876.^[3] On January 1, 1878, Payne was suspended from office following impeachment by the national legislature. Harmon served as acting president of Liberia for six days, until January 7, 1878 when Anthony W. Gardiner was sworn in as president.^[4]

Harmon died in 1886 in Cape Palmas.^[1][5]

References

1. Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society (1887). Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 68. p. 41.
2. Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. pp. 258–259. ISBN 9781461659310.
3. American Colonization Society (1877). Sixtieth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society. p. 12.
4. 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.
5. American Colonization Society (July 1886). The African Repository, Volume 62. p. 100.

Political offices
Preceded by Anthony W. Gardiner	Vice President of Liberia 1876–1878	Succeeded by Alfred Francis Russell