George Boley

Dr.George Eutychianus Saigbe Boley (born 7 December 1949) is a Liberian politician and former rebel leader. He is a member of the Krahn ethnic group. Boley was a junior minister in the administration of President William Tolbert, but was briefly jailed for his associations with opposition groups. He was released on the morning of the 1980 military coup that brought Samuel Doe to power. Boley later became Minister of Presidential Affairs and Minister of Education under President Doe. After Doe's murder in September 1990, he went into exile in the United States, but returned in 1993 to take over the leadership of the Liberia Peace Council (LPC), a rebel group that participated in the Liberian Civil War.

Boley participated in the country's first post-war presidential election, held on 19 July 1997. Representing the National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL), he won only 1.26% of the vote.

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He was Elected in the October 10th 2017 Presidential and Legislative Elections to Represent his home County of Grand Gedeh District # 2 in the House of Representatives comprising the 54th Legislator of The Republic of Liberia..He is also an avid reader who runs a commercial pastoral farm named Country Farms in his native County of Grand Gedeh in Southeastern Liberia.