Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was an Americo-Liberian merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician...
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member of the Americo-Liberian community. She married politician Joseph Jenkins Roberts, also an American immigrant, who was appointed as governor of the...
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Joe Roberts (rugby union) (born 2000), Welsh rugby union player Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876), 1st and 7th President of Liberia Joseph J. Roberts (born...
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third vice president of Liberia from 1854 to 1856 under President Joseph Jenkins Roberts. Born in the United States, Benson was the first president to have...
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opponent was the True Whig Party. The first President of Liberia, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, supported the party, which had the first candidates elected to...
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James Roye of the True Whig Party and his eventual replacement by Joseph Jenkins Roberts of the Republican Party. Roye, a wealthy businessman, had been elected...
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succeeded by Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first person of African descent to serve as governor of Liberia. Upon independence in 1847, Roberts was elected...
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from 1822 until Liberian independence in 1847. The last governor, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, also served as the first President of Liberia of Liberia after...
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constitutional referendum. The result was a victory for Governor Joseph Jenkins Roberts of the Pro-Administration Party, who defeated Samuel Benedict of...
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first vice president of Liberia from 1848 to 1850 under President Joseph Jenkins Roberts. Brander was born free in Petersburg, Virginia, United States, in...
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