Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)
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.
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia | |
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Incumbent Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. since 6 October 2020 | |
| 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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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
The following is a list of officeholders since the establishment of the post in 1848:[3]
| No. | Name (Birth–Death) |
Portrait | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secretaries of State (1848–1972) | |||
| 1 | Hilary Teague (1805–1853) |
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1848–1850 |
| 2 | John N. Lewis | |
1850–1854 |
| 3 | Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815–1880) |
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1854–1856 |
| 4 | James Skivring Smith (1825–1892) |
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1856–1860 |
| 5 | Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) |
_E.W._Blyden.jpg.webp) |
1860–1862 |
| 6 | J. W. Blacklege | |
1862–1864 |
| 7 | James E. Moore | |
1864–1871 |
| 8 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) |
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1871–1874 |
| 9 | W. A. Johnson | |
1874–1878 |
| (5) | Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) |
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1878–1888 |
| 10 | William M. Davies | |
1888–1890 |
| 11 | Ernest J. Barclay |  |
1890–1892 |
| — | Arthur Barclay (1854–1938) Acting Secretary |
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1892 |
| 12 | Garretson W. Gibson (1832–1910) |
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1892–1900 |
| 13 | Walter van Dyke Gibson | |
1900–1904 |
| 14 | Hilary Wilmot Travis | _H.W._Travis.jpg.webp) |
1904–1908 |
| 15 | F. E. R. Johnson |  |
1908–1912 |
| 16 | Charles D. B. King (1875–1961) |
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1912–1920 |
| 17 | Edwin Barclay (1882–1955) |
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1920–1930 |
| 18 | Louis Arthur Grimes (1883–1948) |
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1930–1934 |
| 19 | Clarence Lorenzo Simpson (1896–1969) |
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1934–1943 |
| 20 | Gabriel Lafayette Dennis (1896–1954) |
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1944–1953 |
| 21 | Momolu Dukuly (1903–1980) |
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1954–1960 |
| 22 | Joseph Rudolph Grimes (1923–2007) |
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1960–1972 |
| Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1972–present) | |||
| 1 | Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks (1923–1986) |
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1972–1973 |
| 2 | Cecil Dennis (1931–1980) [lower-alpha 1] |
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1973–1980 |
| 3 | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) |
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1980–1981 |
| 4 | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) |
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1981–1983 |
| 5 | Ernest Eastman (1927–2011) |
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1983–1986 |
| 6 | John Bernard Blamo (born 1935) |
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1986–1987 |
| 7 | Joseph Rudolph Johnson (born 1938) |
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1987–1990 |
| (3) | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) |
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1990–1993 |
| 8 | Momoly Sirleaf | |
1993–1994 |
| 9 | Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper (1930–2009) |
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1994–1995 |
| (8) | Momoly Sirleaf | |
1995–1996 |
| 10 | Monie Captan (born 1962) |
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1996–2003 |
| 11 | Lewis Brown (born 1965) |
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2003 |
| 12 | Thomas Nimely (born 1956) |
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2003–2006 |
| 13 | George Wallace (born 1938) |
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2006–2007 |
| 14 | Olubanke King Akerele (born 1946) |
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2007–2010 |
| 15 | Toga G. McIntosh (born 1942?) |
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2010–2012 |
| 16 | Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan (born 1970) |
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2012–2015 |
| — | B. Elias Shoniyin Acting Minister |
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2015–2016 |
| 17 | Marjon Kamara (born 1949) |
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2016–2018 |
| 18 | Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (born 1960) |
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2018–2020 |
| — | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) Acting Minister |
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2020 |
| 19 | Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. (born 1965) |
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2020–present |
Notes
- Deposed in the 1980 Liberian coup d'état and executed afterwards.
See also
References
- "Brief History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". mofa.gov.lr. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Liberia. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- "2008 National Population and Housing Census: Preliminary Results" (PDF). Government of the Republic of Liberia. 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- "Foreign ministers L–R". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
| Secretaries of State (1848–1972) |
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| Ministers of Foreign Affairs (1972–present) | ||
† denotes acting Secretary/Minister | ||
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