This is a list of notable Americo-Liberian people.
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. Gardner, 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
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