Monrovia-Cllr. Brumskine was on Saturday, December 14, 2019, laid to rest in Kpogbarn Statutory District #4,Grand Bassa County after a well organized state funeral both in Monrovia and Buchanan.

Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine died on November 20,2019, after protracted period of illness in the U.S. Many of his supporters and Liberians in general stood bye the roadside to take glance at the conffin in Grand Bassa county his Liberty Party stronghold.

Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine was born April 27, 1951 in Grand Bassa county. He was educated in Liberia and U.S.

Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine attended Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law where he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1981 and passed the Liberian bar. He earned a Master of Laws degree from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas the following year.

Cllr. Brumskine became politically prominent in the 1990s as an ally of Charles Taylor.

When Taylor became President in 1997, Brumskine became President pro tempore of the Senate.
By 1999, however, they began feuding, Brumskine fled the country after being threatened by Taylor’s supporters.

Charles Brumskine served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate of Liberia from July 1997 – August 1999. He was Succeeded by Keikura Bayoh Kpoto.

He returned to Liberia in 2003 with plans to run in the scheduled 2003 presidential election. However, Taylor’s resignation that year and the installment of a two-year transitional government led to the elections being cancelled.

He was founding father and political leader of the Liberty Party and came third in the 2005, came fourth 2011 and Fourth in 2017 presidential election.

In 2004, Brumskine began campaigning for the 2005 presidential elections as a member of the Liberty Party.
Like most of the other candidates, he promised to bring reconciliation to the country following its political turmoil, and improve the economy and infrastructure.

What made him unique was the strong religious message in his campaign. Ultimately, he received nearly 14% of the vote, 6% less than the second-place candidate, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and therefore he was not able to participate in the runoff.
Due to his popularity in the first round, he could have significantly influenced the run-off had he endorsed either candidate.
He decided not to endorse Sirleaf or her opponent, George Weah, in the runoff.
In 2010, he announced his plans to challenge Sirleaf in the 2011 presidential election.

On 20 January 2011, Brumskine announced that Bong County Senator Franklin Obed Siakor would be his running mate in the 2011 presidential election. Soon after the announcement, some Liberian political analysts believed that the merger of Bassa County’s Charles Brumskine and Bong County’s Franklin Siakor would pose trouble for Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s re-election bid.
It was also argued that Brumskine’s pairing with Siakor delivered a fatal blow to other opposition political parties that might enter the race for President, as the race was thought likely to come down to Brumskine and Johnson-Sirleaf. However, Winston Tubman was the most popular of Johnson-Sirleaf’s opponents, and the third-place finisher in the contest was Prince Johnson.

The Controversy 2017 Elections:
The General elections were held in Liberia on 10 October 2017 to elect the President and members of the House of Representatives. No candidate won a majority in the first round of the presidential vote, so the top two finishers — CDC standard-bearer Amb. George Weah and UP standard-bearer Vice President Joseph Boakai — competed in a run-off on 26 December. The second round was originally scheduled for 7 November, but was postponed LP stander-bearer Cllr. Charles Brumskine, in third place, challenged the result in the Supreme Court.. Supreme Court dismissed the challenge, which would have forced a re-run of the first round had it been successful and the second round was held on 26 December. Weah emerged victorious with 60% of the vote.

He was the senior partner of Brumskine & Associates, a leading Liberian law firm in the country.