{{Short description|Liberian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Reginald Goodridge | office1 = Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism | term_start1 = | term_end1 = | party = True Whig Party (after 2005)<br/>National Patriotic Party (before 2005) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|11|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Liberia | death_date = | death_place = | education = | spouse = | children = }} '''Reginald Goodridge''' (born 11 November 1952)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20040723|title=Liberia Designations|website=U.S. Department of the Treasury|access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref> is a Liberian politician and former government minister. Goodridge was born in Liberia in 1952.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sierra-leone.org/Archives/slnews0101.html|title=Sierra Leone Web - Sierra Leone News - January 2001|website=Sierra-leone.org|access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref> He also served as Liberian minister for Culture, Information, Tourism of Liberia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4bb04ae32198c272da7b216f8c376cac|title=Liberia Monrovia | AP Archive|website=Aparchive.com|access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theperspective.org/goodridge.html|title=A Conversation with Liberia's Information Minister E. Reginald Goodridge|website=Theperspective.org|access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref> Following the end of the Second Liberian Civil War, Goodridge argued that there would be "bloodbath" in the country if Taylor was forced to resign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/fr/node/212584|title=Minister warns of "bloodbath" if Taylor is forced out|date=Jun 19, 2003|website=The New Humanitarian|access-date=Sep 4, 2021}}</ref> In 2005, Goodridge left the National Patriotic Party and joined the new version of the True Whig Party (TWP). He was appointed as the TWP's chairman in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/reginald-goodridge-heads-new-twp/ |title=Reginald Goodridge Heads 'New TWP' |access-date=19 June 2020 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622020740/https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/reginald-goodridge-heads-new-twp/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.africanelections.org/liberia/news/page.php?news=5561|title=Former Information Minister Renews Membership With TWP|date=31 March 2011 |first1= Andy |last1=Adisi|access-date=2021-09-04|website=Africanelections.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanelections.org/liberia/news/page.php?news=5561|title=Former Information Minister Renews Membership With TWP|website=Africanelections.org|access-date=2021-10-26}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspublictrust.com/former-ruling-twp-wants-proper-burial-for-executed-officials-in-liberias-1980-coup/|title=Former Ruling TWP Wants Proper Burial For Executed Officials In Liberia's 1980 Coup|website=Newspublictrust.com|date=Apr 23, 2021|access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref> By May 2025, the TWP executive committee passed a vote of no confidence against Chairman Goodridge. They accused Goodridge of not scheduling a national convention to elect new party officers, despite party's constitution requiring it.<ref>{{cite web|first=Naneka A.|last=Hoffman|url=https://thenewdawnliberia.com/twp-on-stormy-road/|title=TWP on stormy road|publisher=The New Dawn Liberia|date=May 7, 2025|access-date=August 16, 2025}}</ref>
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