US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to Liberia. Liberia was the first African nation to have its US legation raised to Embassy status, in 1949.

23-Feb-1864	20-Jul-1866	Abraham Hanson	Died at post
02-Jan-1867	11-Jun-1870	John Seys
19-Jul-1871	07-May-1878	J. Milton Turner
19-Aug-1878	22-Dec-1881	John H. Smyth
22-Dec-1881	13-Feb-1882	Henry Highland Garnet	Died at post
04-Aug-1882	14-Dec-1885	John H. Smyth
14-Dec-1885	03-Aug-1886	Moses A. Hopkins	Died at post
04-Jun-1887	22-Sep-1887	C. H. J. Taylor
21-Jul-1888	20-May-1890	Ezekiel E. Smith
25-Nov-1890	31-May-1891	Alexander Clark	Died at post
28-Mar-1892	15-May-1893	William D. McCoy	Died at post
06-May-1895	28-Apr-1898	William H. Heard
11-May-1898	13-May-1902	Owen L. W. Smith
13-May-1902	30-Jan-1903	John R. A. Crossland
27-Jul-1903	25-Aug-1910	Ernest Lyon
25-Aug-1910	17-Sep-1912	William D. Crum
08-Dec-1913	15-Apr-1915	George W. Buckner
29-Dec-1915	20-Oct-1917	James L. Curtis
08-Oct-1919	13-Feb-1922	Joseph J. Johnson
13-Feb-1922	09-Jan-1926	Solomon Porter Hood
30-Nov-1927	15-Jul-1929	William T. Francis	Died at post
20-Jan-1931	22-Mar-1933	Charles E. Mitchell	Did not present credentials; Liberian government requested his recall
02-Oct-1935	28-Feb-1946	Lester A. Walton
01-Jul-1946	08-Jun-1948	Raphael O'Hara Lanier
18-Oct-1948	15-Jun-1953	Edward R. Dudley
16-Oct-1953	10-Apr-1955	Jesse D. Locker	Died at post
24-Jun-1955	24-Jul-1959	Richard Lee Jones
30-Sep-1959	04-May-1962	Elbert G. Mathews
07-Aug-1962	30-Sep-1964	Charles Edward Rhetts
06-Jan-1965	17-Jul-1969	Ben H. Brown, Jr.
09-Dec-1969	19-Jul-1972	Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr.	Died at post
22-Dec-1972	15-Dec-1975	Melvin L. Manfull
23-Apr-1976	01-Jan-1979	W. Beverly Carter, Jr.
06-Aug-1979	15-Jan-1981	Robert P. Smith
11-Aug-1981	10-Jun-1985	William L. Swing
28-Aug-1985	22-Oct-1986	Edward Perkins
04-May-1987	31-Mar-1990	James Keough Bishop
22-Jun-1990	27-Jul-1992	Peter Jon de Vos
Sep-1992	Jul-1995	William H. Twaddell	Interim
Nov-1995	Jan-1998	William Milam	Interim
Feb-1998	Aug-1999	Donald K. Petterson	Interim
20-Aug-1999	23-Jul-2002	Bismark Myrick
03-Oct-2002	13-Jul-2005	John William Blaney
09-Aug-2005	--	Donald E. Booth

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