STEPHEN ALLEN BENSON Second President of Liberia, Benson was born on May 21, 1816 in Cambridge,Maryland, USA to freeborn parents. Was six years old when the family immigrated to Liberia in 1822. He was taken captive in the Battle of Crown Hill, by the Dey and Gola people. Captors and six year-old prisoner bonded, and …
Born July 3, 1896, Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County. Served the Edwin Barclay administration as District Commissioner in Tchien (Grand Gedeh) and Sanniquellie (Nimba), Provincial Commissioner Grand Gedeh, Nimba and Lofa,and the Tubman administration as Under Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of War, Secretary of Defense, and first ambassador to the newly independent Ivory Coast. …
RUDOLPH GRIMES Longest serving Secretary of State, Grimes was born in Monrovia on October 31,1923 to Chief Justice Louis Arthur Grimes and Victoria Grimes. Educated at the College of West Africa, Liberia College, Harvard Law School and Columbia University. Founded Louis Arthur Grimes Law School at the University of Liberia in 1951 and served as …
NATIONAL MUSEUM, MONROVIA, Constructed in 1864 to house the Supreme Court, Senate and House of Representatives.
J. ROYE BUILDING, mid 1970s. The National True Whig Party Headquarters was designed by MILTON AND RICHARDS A/E and completed in 1974. It unfortunately was destroyed during the war. EJ Roye was the fifth president and first from the TWP, elected in 1870. Deposed and murdered a year later, accused of financial fraud and dictatorial …
