List of Americo-Liberian people

This is a list of notable Americo-Liberian people.

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The Americo-Liberian or Congau ethnic group has produced several notable politicians, businessman, and professionals including:

Politicians and Administrators

• Wilmot Collins, Liberian-born American politician serving as the mayor of Helena, Montana
• Nathaniel Barnes, Liberian businessman and politician
• Charles Cecil Dennis, Liberian diplomat and politician
• C. Cyvette M. Gibson, Mayor of Paynesville, Liberia
• Louis Arthur Grimes, Liberian jurist
• Richard Abrom Henries, Liberian politician
• Elijah Johnson, Liberian pioneer and founding father of Liberia
• James A. A. Pierre, Liberian politician
• Charles Taylor, Liberian President and convicted war criminal
• Hilary Teague, Liberian pioneer and author of the Liberian Declaration of Independence
• Frank E. Tolbert, Liberian politician and businessman
• E. Reginald Townsend, Liberian politician and journalist
• Winston Tubman, Liberian lawyer and politician
• Clarence Lorenzo Simpson Sr., Liberian politician and former Vice President
• Kimmie Weeks, Liberian human rights activist

Educators and Writers

• Edward Wilmot Blyden, Liberian intellectual scholar and Pan-Africanist pioneer
• Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman, Liberian educator and first African woman to serve as president of a university
• Anna E. Cooper, educator, dean of the University of Liberia
• Helene Cooper, journalist for The New York Times
• John Payne Jackson, influential journalist in the Lagos Colony and founder of the Lagos Weekly Record
• Wayétu Moore, author

Entrepreneurs and Businesspersons

• Romeo A. Horton, a founder of the Africa Development Bank
• Clarence Lorenzo Simpson Jr., Liberian judge and businessman
• Benoni Urey, Liberian businessman and the wealthiest Liberian
• Rhoda Weeks-Brown, General counsel to the IMF

Scientists and Medical professionals

• Solomon Carter Fuller, Liberian pioneer and African-American psychiatrist and physician

American-born presidents of Liberia

Americo-Liberians formed a cultural elite in Liberia that produced every Liberian president before 1980. The following presidents of Liberia, however, were born in the United States:

• Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first and seventh president. Born in Norfolk, Virginia
• Stephen Allen Benson, second president. Born in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland
• Daniel Bashiel Warner, third president. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland
• James Spriggs-Payne, fourth and eighth president. Born in Richmond, Virginia
• Edward James Roye, fifth president. Born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio.
• James Skivring Smith, sixth president. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston County, South Carolina
• Anthony W. Gardiner, ninth president. Born in Southampton County, Virginia
• Alfred F. Russell, tenth president. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
• William D. Coleman, thirteenth president. Born in Fayette County, Kentucky
• Garretson W. Gibson, fourteenth president. Born in Baltimore, Maryland

Also one Americo-Liberian president of Liberia was born in the British West Indies:

• Arthur Barclay, fifteenth president of Liberia, was born in Bridgetown, Barbados