Andrew Juxon-Smith | |
Order1: | Governor-General of Sierra Leone |
Term Start1: | 28 March 1967 |
Term End1: | 18 April 1968 |
Monarch1: | Elizabeth II |
Predecessor1: | Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston |
Successor1: | John Amadu Bangura |
Birth Name: | Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith |
Birth Date: | 30 November 1931 |
Birth Place: | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
Death Date: | 1996 |
Death Place: | Stapleton, New York, U.S. |
Rank: | Brigadier |
Alma Mater: | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith (30 November 1931[1] – 1996) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer in of Creole descent. Between 27 March 1967 and 18 April 1968, he was Chairman of the National Reformation Council and acting Governor-General, equivalent to head of the Sierra Leonean state. He was additionally Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone.[2] He and the Council were overthrown in April 1968 by a group of low-level military officials led by John Amadu Bangura that restored Sierra Leone to rule by parliament under Siaka Stevens. He later moved to the United States and died in Stapleton, New York.
Juxon-Smith's life is the subject of the short documentary A Forgotten Past, directed by Andreas Hadjipateras in 2018.