Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)

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
Coat of arms of Liberia
Incumbent Sara Beysolow 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.gov.lr

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

Source: ^[3]

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		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) [lower-alpha 1]	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

1. 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

1. "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.
2. "2008 National Population and Housing Census: Preliminary Results" (PDF). Government of the Republic of Liberia. 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
3. "Foreign ministers L–R". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved April 11, 2017.