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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission toLiberia
| JohnSeys (Minister 1866-70)J.Milton Turner (Minister 1871-78)JohnH. Smyth (Minister 1878-81)HenryHighland Garnet (Minister 1881-82)JohnH. Smyth (Minister 1882-85)MosesA. Hopkins (Minister 1885-86)CharlesHenry James Taylor (Minister 1887)EzekielEzra Smith (Minister 1888-90)AlexanderClark (Minister 1890-91)WilliamD. McCoy (Minister 1892-93)WilliamH. Heard (Minister 1895-98)OwenL. W. Smith (Minister 1898-1902)JohnR. A. Crossland (Minister 1902-03)ErnestLyon (Minister 1903-10)WilliamD. Crum (Minister 1910-12)GeorgeW. Buckner (Minister 1913-15)JamesL. Curtis (Minister 1915-17)JosephL. Johnson (Minister 1918-22)SolomonPorter Hood (Minister 1922-26)WilliamT. Francis (Minister 1927-29)CharlesE. Mitchell (Minister 1930-33)LesterAglar Walton (Minister 1935-46)RaphaelO'Hara Lanier (Minister 1946-48)EdwardR. Dudley (Minister 1948-49)EdwardR. Dudley (Ambassador 1949-53)JesseD. Locker (Ambassador 1953-55)RichardLee Jones (Ambassador 1955)ElbertG. Mathews (Ambassador 1959-62)CharlesEdward Rhetts (Ambassador 1962-64)BenHill Brown, Jr. (Ambassador 1964)SamuelZ. Westerfield, Jr. (Ambassador 1969-72)MelvinLawrence Manfull (Ambassador 1972)W.Beverly Carter, Jr. (Ambassador 1976)RobertPowell Smith (Ambassador 1979)WilliamL. Swing (Ambassador 1981)EdwardJ. Perkins (Ambassador 1985)JamesKeough Bishop (Ambassador 1987)PeterJon de Vos (Ambassador 1990-92)BismarckMyrick (Ambassador 1999) |
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