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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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 |
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
editSource: [3]
- Status
Denotes acting officeholder
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 R. 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
editReferences
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.