Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia
Coat of arms of Liberia
Incumbent Sara Beysolow Nyanti 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;177 years ago (1848)
First holder	Hilary Teague
Website	mofa.gov.lr

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

Source: ^{[3] [4]}

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 (1950–2025)	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

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.
4. Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000). "Transitional Governments". Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. p. 295. ISBN   9781461659310.