Post: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Body: | the Republic of Liberia |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of Liberia.svg |
Insigniasize: | 150px |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Liberia |
Incumbent: | Sara Beysolow |
Incumbentsince: | 9 February 2024 |
Department: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Type: | Foreign minister |
Member Of: | The Cabinet |
Seat: | Tubman Boulevard, Monrovia |
Nominator: | The President |
Appointer: | The President |
Termlength: | No fixed term |
Constituting Instrument: | Liberian Constitution of 1847 |
Inaugural: | Hilary Teague |
Formation: | 1848 |
Deputy: | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh |
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]
Source: [3]
Portrait | Name | Tenure | Title | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hilary Teague | 1848–1850 | Secretary of State | |
2 | John N. Lewis | 1850–1854 | ||
3 | Daniel Bashiel Warner | 1854–1856 | ||
4 | James Skivring Smith | 1856–1860 | ||
5 | Edward Wilmot Blyden | 1860–1862 | ||
6 | J. W. Blacklege | 1862–1864 | ||
7 | James E. Moore | 1864–1871 | ||
8 | Hilary R. W. Johnson | 1871–1874 | ||
9 | W. A. Johnson | 1874–1878 | ||
Edward Wilmot Blyden | 1878–1888 | |||
10 | William M. Davies | 1888–1890 | ||
11 | Ernest J. Barclay | 1890–1892 | ||
— | Arthur Barclay | 1892 | ||
12 | Garretson W. Gibson | 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 | 1912–1920 | ||
17 | Edwin Barclay | 1920–1930 | ||
18 | Louis Arthur Grimes | 1930–1934 | ||
19 | Clarence Lorenzo Simpson | 1934–1943 | ||
20 | Gabriel Lafayette Dennis | 1944–1953 | ||
21 | Momolu Dukuly | 1954–1960 | ||
22 | Joseph Rudolph Grimes | 1960–1972 | ||
23 | Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks | 1972–1973 | Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
24 | Cecil Dennis | 1973–1980 | ||
25 | Gabriel Baccus Matthews | 1980–1981 | ||
26 | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh | 1981–1983 | ||
27 | Ernest Eastman | 1983–1986 | ||
28 | John Bernard Blamo | 1986–1987 | ||
29 | Joseph Rudolph Johnson | 1987–1990 | ||
Gabriel Baccus Matthews | 1990–1993 | |||
30 | Momoly Sirleaf | 1993–1994 | ||
31 | Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper | 1994–1995 | ||
Momoly Sirleaf | 1995–1996 | |||
32 | Monie R. Captan | 1996–2003 | ||
33 | Lewis Brown | 2003 | ||
34 | Thomas Nimely | 2003–2006 | ||
35 | George Wallace | 2006–2007 | ||
36 | Olubanke King Akerele | 2007–2010 | ||
37 | Toga G. McIntosh | 2010–2012 | ||
38 | Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan | 2012–2015 | ||
— | B. Elias Shoniyin | 2015–2016 | ||
39 | Marjon Kamara | 2016–2018 | ||
40 | Gbehzohngar Milton Findley | 2018–2020 | ||
— | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh | 2020 | ||
41 | Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. | 2020–2024 | ||
42 | Sara Beysolow | 2024–present |