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  2. History of Liberia - Wikipedia

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    Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free ... all were killed. Doe was sworn in as president on January 6, 1986. ... the Taylor government. Liberia was now ...

  3. Jehudi Ashmun - Wikipedia

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    It founded the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a place to resettle free people of color from the United States. Ashmun emigrated to Monrovia, Liberia in 1822, where he served as the United States government's agent (de facto governor) for two different terms: one from August 1822 until April 1824, and another from August 1824 until March ...

  4. Agents and governors of Liberia - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Colony of Liberia, 1839. This article lists the agents and governors of Liberia, consisting of fourteen agents and two governors of the American Colonization Society from 1822 until Liberian independence in 1847. The last governor, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, also served as the first president of Liberia after independence was gained in ...

  5. After decades in the wings, Liberia's quiet man Boakai set ...

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    He faces a huge task to rebuild Africa's oldest republic which was founded by freed slaves from the Americas in 1822 but has struggled to emerge from two civil wars that killed more than 250,000 ...

  6. Colony of Liberia - Wikipedia

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    Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming the self-proclaimed independent nation of the Republic of Liberia, after declaring independence on July 26 of 1847, but was not recognized by the United States until September 23, 1862

  7. Lott Cary - Wikipedia

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    Lott Cary Providence Baptist Church's old sanctuary, site of the signing of the Liberian Declaration of Independence in 1847.. Lott Cary (also in records as Lott Carey and Lott Gary) (1780 – November 10, 1828) was an African-American Baptist minister and lay physician who was a missionary leader in the founding of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa in the 1820s.

  8. President of Liberia - Wikipedia

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    His successor, Moses Blah, ceded executive power on October 13 of that year to Gyude Bryant, the chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia. The presidency was resumed on January 16, 2006, following the 2005 general election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the first female president. George Weah was elected in 2017 as the 25th president of ...

  9. Liberia - Wikipedia

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    The government of Liberia, modeled on the government of the United States, is a unitary constitutional republic and representative democracy as established by the Constitution. The government has three co-equal branches of government: the executive , headed by the president ; the legislative , consisting of the bicameral Legislature of Liberia ...