Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia | |
|---|---|
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 | Constitution of Liberia (1847) |
| Formation | 1848 |
| First holder | Hilary Teague |
| Website | mofa |
| Liberia portal |
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
- Status
Denotes acting officeholder
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Tenure | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | John N. Lewis | 1860–1862 | ||
| 6 | William Highland Lynch | 1862–1864 | ||
| 7 | Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) |
1864–1865 | ||
| 8 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) |
1866–1867 | ||
| 9 | John N. Lewis | 1867–1869 | ||
| 10 | William Andrew Johnson | 1869–1870 | ||
| 11 | John N. Lewis | 1870–1871 | ||
| 12 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) |
1871–1874 | ||
| 13 | James Elijah Moore | 1874–1876 | ||
| 14 | James Skivring Smith | 1876–1877 | ||
| 15 | John W. Blackledge | 1877 | ||
| 16 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) |
1877–1878 | ||
| 17 | Garretson W. Gibson (1832–1910) |
1878–1884 | ||
| 18 | Ernest J. Barclay | 1884–1888 | ||
| 19 | William McCall Davis | 1888–1890 | ||
| 20 | Ernest J. Barclay | 1890–1892 | ||
| — | Arthur Barclay (1854–1938) |
1892 | ||
| 21 | Garretson W. Gibson (1832–1910) |
1892–1900 | ||
| 22 | Walter van Dyke Gibson | 1900–1904 | ||
| 23 | Hilary Wilmot Travis | 1904–1908 | ||
| 24 | F. E. R. Johnson | 1908–1912 | ||
| 25 | Charles D. B. King (1875–1961) |
1912–1920 | ||
| 26 | Edwin Barclay (1882–1955) |
1920–1930 | ||
| 27 | Louis Arthur Grimes (1883–1948) |
1930–1934 | ||
| 28 | Clarence Lorenzo Simpson (1896–1969) |
1934–1943 | ||
| 29 | Gabriel Lafayette Dennis (1896–1954) |
1944–1953 | ||
| 30 | Momolu Dukuly (1903–1980) |
1954–1960 | ||
| 31 | Joseph Rudolph Grimes (1923–2007) |
1960–1972 | ||
| 32 | Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks (1923–1986) |
1972–1973 | Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| 33 | Cecil Dennis (1931–1980) [a] |
1973–1980 | ||
| 34 | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) |
1980–1981 | ||
| 35 | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) |
1981–1983 | ||
| 36 | Ernest Eastman (1927–2011) |
1983–1986 | ||
| 37 | John Bernard Blamo (born 1935) |
1986–1987 | ||
| 38 | Joseph Rudolph Johnson (born 1938) |
1987–1990 | ||
| 39 | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) |
1990–1994 | ||
| 40 | Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper (1930–2009) |
1994–1995 | ||
| 41 | Momoly Sirleaf | 1995–1996 | ||
| 42 | Monie R. Captan (born 1962) |
1996–2003 | ||
| 43 | Lewis Brown (born 1965) |
2003 | ||
| 44 | Thomas Nimely (born 1956) |
2003–2006 | ||
| 45 | George Wallace (born 1938) |
2006–2007 | ||
| 46 | Olubanke King Akerele (born 1946) |
2007–2010 | ||
| — | Sylvester Grigsby | 2010 | ||
| 47 | Toga G. McIntosh (born 1942?) |
2010–2012 | ||
| 48 | Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan (born 1970) |
2012–2015 | ||
| — | B. Elias Shoniyin | 2015–2016 | ||
| 49 | Marjon Kamara (born 1949) |
2016–2018 | ||
| 50 | Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (born 1960) |
2018–2020 | ||
| — | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) |
2020 | ||
| 51 | Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. (born 1965) |
2020–2024 | ||
| 52 | Sara Beysolow Nyanti (born 1968) |
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.
- ^ Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000). "Transitional Governments". Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. p. 295. ISBN 9781461659310.