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This is an incomplete list of presidents pro tempore of the Senate of Liberia. The Senate elects a president pro tempore to preside for a term of six years.
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Elijah Johnson | 1848 | 1849 | |
John Day | 1849 | ? | |
Alfred Francis Russell | 1856 | 1857 - ? | |
John Marshall | 1871 | 1872 – ? | |
J. J. Ross | ? – 1896 | 1896 – ? | |
Alfred Benedict King | 1897 | 1899 | |
R. H. Jackson | 1899 | ? | |
D. F. Worrell | 1901 | 1901 | |
Alfred Benedict King | 1901 | 1903 | |
J. C. Johnson | 1903 | 1905 | |
T. I. Tate | 1905 | 1907 | |
Charles B. Dunbar | 1919 | 1923 | |
John Gottlieb A. Richards | 1923 | 1927 | |
W. J. Clark | ? | ? | |
William V. S. Tubman | ? – 1930 | 1931 | |
James Agea Himie Jones | 1944 | 1956 | |
Edwin A. Morgan | 1956 | 1958 | |
J. Lemuel Gibson | 1958 | 1964 | |
James Norman Anderson | 1964 | 1967 | |
Isaac A. David | 1967 | 1971 | |
Frank E. Tolbert, Sr. | 1972 | 1980 | |
No Senate | 1980 | 1986 | |
John G. Rancy | 1986 | 1989 | |
Keikura Bayoh Kpoto | February 1989 | September 1990 | |
No Senate | 1990 | 1997 | |
Charles Walker Brumskine | July 1997 | August 1999 | |
Keikura Bayoh Kpoto | 1999 | 20 August 2002 | |
Grace B. Minor | September 2002 | 2003 | |
John Gray (acting) | 2003 | 11 August 2003 | |
Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu (acting) | 11 August 2003 | 14 October 2003 | |
? | 2003 | 2006 | |
Isaac W. Nyenabo | 13 January 2006 | 17 March 2009 | |
Lahai G. Lansanah (acting) | 20 August 2008 | 2009 | |
Cletus S. Wotorson (acting) | 26 March 2009 | January 2012 | |
Gbehzohngar Milton Findley | January 2012 | January 2015 | |
Armah Jallah | 12 February 2015 | 15 January 2018 | |
Albert Tugbe Chie | 15 January 2018 | 15 January 2024 | |
Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence | 15 February 2024 | Incumbent |
References
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- "The African Repository and Colonial Journal, Volume 25". African Repository and Colonial Journal. 1849.
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- "The African Repository". The African Repository. Vol. 33. 1857.
- "Letters from Henry W. Dennis, Esq". The African Repository. 48 (1): 94. 1872 – via HathiTrust.
- Heard, William H. (1898). The Bright Side of African Life: Illustrated. Philadelphia: A. M. E. Publishing House – via Internet Archive.
- Liberia. American Colonization Society. 1897.
- Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2001). Historical Dictionary of Liberia (2nd ed.). Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3876-5 – via Google Books.
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