Presidents

Bio George Weah’s family is of the Kru tribe and from Grand Kru County. He was born and raised in Monrovia, Montserrado County. His father worked as a carpenter and Weah’s early years in the slums of Monrovia, and a poor family reflect his humble beginnings. He dropped out of high school and pursued a […]

Bio Ellen Johnson was born in 1938 to Carney and his wife Martha. Her father was a Gola man who moved to Monrovia as a teenager and lived with an Americo-Liberian family as a ward. Her mother was from Sinoe County and the daughter of a German merchant and his Kru wife. During World War […]

Bio Charles McArthur Taylor was one of seven children born to Nielson and Zoe Taylor. Nielson was from an Americo-Liberian family of humble means. His grandparents were freed slaves from the United States and settled in Liberia in the 1890s . Zoe was from the Gola tribe and worked as a young maid in the […]

Bio Doe was born in the small town of Tuzon, Grand Gedeh County, and was from the Krahn tribe. Like many native Liberians, his parents were poor and uneducated. Education Doe had an elementary school education before joining the army. He and other military men took night classes at the Barracks before the coup. Amos […]

Bio The Bark Azor arrived in Liberia in 1878 with freed slaves from the American South including 29 year old farmer Frank Tolbert, his wife, and their 5 children from Ninety-Six, South Carolina. The Tolberts eventually settled in Bensonville, Montserrado County. Their grandson, and future president William Richard Tolbert was born in Bensonville in 1913. […]

Bio The Tubman family were freed slaves from the state of Georgia in the USA. Upon his death, Richard Tubman of Georgia left in his will $10,000 to transport his freed slaves to the colony in West Africa. This group included William Shadrach and Sylvia Tubman who arrived in Maryland in Africa (Cape Palmas) via […]

Bio Edwin Barclay’s family migrated to Liberia from Barbados, West Indies in 1865 through the Barbados Colonization Society. He was born in Brewerville Township, Montserrado County on January 5, 1882, an out of wedlock son of Ernest Barclay. Other members of his family were prominent in the government like his father who was Secretary of […]

Bio Charles Dunbar Burgess King was born in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1871. Some sources claim that he was born in Sierra Leone. His father, T.O. King was a Nigerian who migrated to Liberia via Sierra Leone. King’s mother, Elizabeth Jean Hamilberg was an Americo-Liberian. He received his elementary education in Liberia and studied in Sierra […]

Bio Daniel Edward Howard was born in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County in 1861. His father Thomas Howard was Secretary of the Treasury, and for many years served as Chairman of the True Whig Party. At that time, the True Whig chairman position had much influence and power. President Coleman’s hinterland policies drafted by Thomas Howard […]