The Political Graveyard: Liberia

Liberia
West Africa

Liberia information:

Population: 3,225,837
Land area 43,000 square miles.
Capital: Monrovia

Neighboring areas:

North: Guinea
East: Côte d'Ivoire
Southwest: North Atlantic Ocean
Northwest: Sierra Leone

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Liberia
U.S. Consuls in Liberia
U.S. Politicians who were born in Liberia
U.S. Politicians who died in Liberia

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Liberia

John Seys (Minister 1866-70) J. Milton Turner (Minister 1871-78) John H. Smyth (Minister 1878-81) Henry Highland Garnet (Minister 1881-82) John H. Smyth (Minister 1882-85) Moses A. Hopkins (Minister 1885-86) Charles Henry James Taylor (Minister 1887) Ezekiel Ezra Smith (Minister 1888-90) Alexander Clark (Minister 1890-91) William D. McCoy (Minister 1892-93) William H. Heard (Minister 1895-98) Owen L. W. Smith (Minister 1898-1902) John R. A. Crossland (Minister 1902-03) Ernest Lyon (Minister 1903-10) William D. Crum (Minister 1910-12) George W. Buckner (Minister 1913-15) James L. Curtis (Minister 1915-17) Joseph L. Johnson (Minister 1918-22) Solomon Porter Hood (Minister 1922-26) William T. Francis (Minister 1927-29) Charles E. Mitchell (Minister 1930-33) Lester Aglar Walton (Minister 1935-46) Raphael O'Hara Lanier (Minister 1946-48) Edward R. Dudley (Minister 1948-49) Edward R. Dudley (Ambassador 1949-53) Jesse Dwight Locker (Ambassador 1953-55) Richard Lee Jones (Ambassador 1955) Elbert G. Mathews (Ambassador 1959-62) Charles Edward Rhetts (Ambassador 1962-64) Ben Hill Brown, Jr. (Ambassador 1964) Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr. (Ambassador 1969-72) Melvin Lawrence Manfull (Ambassador 1972) W. Beverly Carter, Jr. (Ambassador 1976) Robert Powell Smith (Ambassador 1979) William L. Swing (Ambassador 1981) Edward J. Perkins (Ambassador 1985) James Keough Bishop (Ambassador 1987) Peter Jon de Vos (Ambassador 1990-92) Bismarck Myrick (Ambassador 1999)

U.S. Consuls in Liberia

(may be incomplete!)

Monrovia: William H. Heard (Consul General 1895-98) Ernest Lyon (Consul General 1906) George W. Buckner (Consul General 1914) John H. Reed (Vice Consul 1914) Joseph F. B. Coleman (Vice Consul 1916) James L. Curtis (Consul General 1916-17) Richard C. Bundy (Vice Consul 1917-22) Joseph L. Johnson (Consul General 1919-20) Solomon Porter Hood (Consul General 1922-24) Clifton R. Wharton (Vice Consul 1927-29) Clarence E. Macy (Vice Consul 1927) William T. Francis (Consul General 1927-29) William H. Hunt (Consul 1931-32) Charles E. Mitchell (Consul General 1932) William C. George (Vice Consul 1932) James E. Brown (Vice Consul 1938) Rupert A. Lloyd (Vice Consul 1949) Thomas A. Hickok (Consul 1949)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Liberia

No city given: Alex-St. James c.1963

U.S. Politicians who died in Liberia

No city given: Henry Highland Garnet 1882 Moses A. Hopkins 1886 William D. McCoy 1893 William T. Francis 1929 Jesse Dwight Locker 1955
Monrovia: Alexander Clark 1891 Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr. 1972

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 192,291 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LB.html
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
If you are searching for a specific individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.

Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — The site is currently hosted by Hostmonster, but we remain grateful for a decade-plus with our former web host, Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 24, 2009.

Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2009 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.