Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)
Appearance
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
Source: [3]
- Status
Denotes acting officeholder
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Tenure | Title |
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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 | |
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Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) |
1878–1888 | |
10 | ![]() |
William M. Davies | 1888–1890 | |
11 | ![]() |
Ernest J. Barclay | 1890–1892 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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B. Elias Shoniyin | 2015–2016 | |
39 | ![]() |
Marjon Kamara (born 1949) |
2016–2018 | |
40 | ![]() |
Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (born 1960) |
2018–2020 | |
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Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) |
2020 | |
41 | ![]() |
Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. (born 1965) |
2020–2024 | |
42 | ![]() |
Sara Beysolow | 2024–present |
Notes
- ^ Deposed in the 1980 Liberian coup d'état and executed afterwards.
See also
- Foreign relations of Liberia
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)
- List of diplomatic missions of Liberia
References
- ^ 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.