Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia | |
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since 9 February 2024 | |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
Type | Foreign minister |
Member of | The Cabinet |
Seat | Tubman Boulevard, Monrovia |
Nominator | The President |
Appointer | The President |
Term length | No fixed term |
Constituting instrument | Liberian Constitution of 1847 |
Inaugural holder | Hilary Teague |
Formation | 1848 |
Deputy | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh |
Website | mofa |
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs is a cabinet minister of Liberia in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a government ministry responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country.
Originally called the "Secretary of State", the position assumed its current name in 1972.[1]
Between 1848 and 1981, every officeholder came from Montserrado County, Liberia's most populous county.[1][2] The first individual to fill the post from outside of Montserrado was H. Boimah Fahnbulleh, Jr., who was originally from Grand Cape Mount County.[1]
List of officeholders
[edit]Source: [3]
- Status
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Tenure | Title |
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1 | ![]() | Hilary Teague (1802–1853) | 1848–1850 | Secretary of State |
2 | ![]() | John N. Lewis | 1850–1854 | |
3 | ![]() | Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815–1880) | 1854–1856 | |
4 | ![]() | James Skivring Smith (1825–1892) | 1856–1860 | |
5 | ![]() | Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) | 1860–1862 | |
6 | ![]() | J. W. Blacklege | 1862–1864 | |
7 | ![]() | James E. Moore | 1864–1871 | |
8 | ![]() | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) | 1871–1874 | |
9 | ![]() | W. A. Johnson | 1874–1878 | |
(5) | ![]() | Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) | 1878–1888 | |
10 | ![]() | William M. Davies | 1888–1890 | |
11 | ![]() | Ernest J. Barclay | 1890–1892 | |
— | ![]() | Arthur Barclay (1854–1938) | 1892 | |
12 | ![]() | Garretson W. Gibson (1832–1910) | 1892–1900 | |
13 | ![]() | Walter van Dyke Gibson | 1900–1904 | |
14 | ![]() | Hilary Wilmot Travis | 1904–1908 | |
15 | ![]() | F. E. R. Johnson | 1908–1912 | |
16 | ![]() | Charles D. B. King (1875–1961) | 1912–1920 | |
17 | ![]() | Edwin Barclay (1882–1955) | 1920–1930 | |
18 | ![]() | Louis Arthur Grimes (1883–1948) | 1930–1934 | |
19 | ![]() | Clarence Lorenzo Simpson (1896–1969) | 1934–1943 | |
20 | ![]() | Gabriel Lafayette Dennis (1896–1954) | 1944–1953 | |
21 | ![]() | Momolu Dukuly (1903–1980) | 1954–1960 | |
22 | ![]() | Joseph Rudolph Grimes (1923–2007) | 1960–1972 | |
23 | ![]() | Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks (1923–1986) | 1972–1973 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
24 | Cecil Dennis (1931–1980) [a] | 1973–1980 | ||
25 | ![]() | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) | 1980–1981 | |
26 | ![]() | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) | 1981–1983 | |
27 | ![]() | Ernest Eastman (1927–2011) | 1983–1986 | |
28 | ![]() | John Bernard Blamo (born 1935) | 1986–1987 | |
29 | ![]() | Joseph Rudolph Johnson (born 1938) | 1987–1990 | |
(25) | ![]() | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) | 1990–1993 | |
30 | ![]() | Momoly Sirleaf | 1993–1994 | |
31 | ![]() | Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper (1930–2009) | 1994–1995 | |
(30) | ![]() | Momoly Sirleaf | 1995–1996 | |
32 | ![]() | Monie Captan (born 1962) | 1996–2003 | |
33 | ![]() | Lewis Brown (born 1965) | 2003 | |
34 | ![]() | Thomas Nimely (born 1956) | 2003–2006 | |
35 | ![]() | George Wallace (born 1938) | 2006–2007 | |
36 | ![]() | Olubanke King Akerele (born 1946) | 2007–2010 | |
37 | ![]() | Toga G. McIntosh (born 1942?) | 2010–2012 | |
38 | ![]() | Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan (born 1970) | 2012–2015 | |
— | ![]() | B. Elias Shoniyin | 2015–2016 | |
39 | ![]() | Marjon Kamara (born 1949) | 2016–2018 | |
40 | ![]() | Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (born 1960) | 2018–2020 | |
— | ![]() | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) | 2020 | |
41 | ![]() | Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. (born 1965) | 2020–2024 | |
42 | ![]() | Sara Beysolow | 2024–present |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Deposed in the 1980 Liberian coup d'état and executed afterwards.
See also
[edit]- Foreign relations of Liberia
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)
- List of diplomatic missions of Liberia
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Brief History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". mofa.gov.lr. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Liberia. Archived from the original on November 6, 2010. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ^ "2008 National Population and Housing Census: Preliminary Results" (PDF). Government of the Republic of Liberia. 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ^ "Foreign ministers L–R". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved April 11, 2017.