Ruler · 1809 – 1876

Joseph Jenkins Roberts

Lived 1809 – 1876; politician. President of Liberia (Liberia), 1848 – 1856 and 1 more term.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1809 – 1876; 67 years
In office: 12 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 1; Liberia
Left it: lost an election; the ruler's own article

President of Liberia

Liberia · the 1st and 10th of 35 dated reigns · 1848 – 2024

Joseph Jenkins Roberts1848 – 1856

Stephen Allen Benson1856 – 1864

Daniel Bashiel Warner1864 – 1868

James Spriggs Payne1868 – 1870

… 2 …

Reginald Sherman1871

Amos Herring1871

James Skivring Smith1871 – 1872

Joseph Jenkins Roberts1872 – 1876

James Spriggs Payne1876 – 1878

Anthony W. Gardner1878 – 1883

Alfred Francis Russell1883 – 1884

22 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1848 – 1856 · 8 years · came to it aged 39 · term 1 of 2

Left it: lost an electionread from the ruler's own article

the article also: resigned

Roberts was re-elected three more times to serve a total of eight years, until he lost the election in 1855 to Vice President Benson.

Reigned 1872 – 1876 · 4 years · came to it aged 63 · term 2 of 2

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1876, the year they died

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