# Minister of Foreign Affairs (Liberia)

The minister of foreign affairs is a cabinet minister of Liberia in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a government ministry responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country.
Originally called the secretary of state, the position assumed its current name in 1972.
Between 1848 and 1981, every officeholder came from Montserrado County, Liberia's most populous county. The first individual to fill the post from outside of Montserrado was H. Boimah Fahnbulleh, Jr., who was originally from Grand Cape Mount County.

## List of officeholders

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### Status

| No. | Name (Birth–Death) | Tenure | Title |
| 1 | Hilary Teague (1802–1853) | 1848–1850 | Secretary of State |
| 2 | John N. Lewis | 1850–1854 | Secretary of State |
| 3 | Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815–1880) | 1854–1858 | Secretary of State |
| 4 | James Skivring Smith (1825–1892) | 1856–1860 | Secretary of State |
| 5 | John N. Lewis | 1860–1862 | Secretary of State |
| 6 | William Highland Lynch | 1862–1864 | Secretary of State |
| 7 | Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) | 1864–1865 | Secretary of State |
| 8 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) | 1866–1867 | Secretary of State |
| 9 | John N. Lewis | 1867–1869 | Secretary of State |
| 10 | William Andrew Johnson | 1869–1870 | Secretary of State |
| 11 | John N. Lewis | 1870–1871 | Secretary of State |
| 12 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) | 1871–1874 | Secretary of State |
| 13 | James Elijah Moore | 1874–1876 | Secretary of State |
| 14 | James Skivring Smith | 1876–1877 | Secretary of State |
| 15 | John W. Blackledge | 1877 | Secretary of State |
| 16 | Hilary R. W. Johnson (1837–1901) | 1877–1878 | Secretary of State |
| 17 | Garretson W. Gibson (1832–1910) | 1878–1884 | Secretary of State |
| 18 | Ernest J. Barclay | 1884–1888 | Secretary of State |
| 19 | William McCall Davis | 1888–1890 | Secretary of State |
| 20 | Ernest J. Barclay | 1890–1892 | Secretary of State |
| — | Arthur Barclay (acting) (1854–1938) | 1892 | Secretary of State |
| 21 | Garretson W. Gibson (1832–1910) | 1892–1900 | Secretary of State |
| 22 | Walter van Dyke Gibson | 1900–1904 | Secretary of State |
| 23 | Hilary Wilmot Travis | 1904–1908 | Secretary of State |
| 24 | F. E. R. Johnson | 1908–1912 |
| 25 | Charles D. B. King (1875–1961) | 1912–1920 |
| 26 | Edwin Barclay (1882–1955) | 1920–1930 |
| 27 | Louis Arthur Grimes (1883–1948) | 1930–1934 |
| 28 | Clarence Lorenzo Simpson (1896–1969) | 1934–1943 |
| 29 | Gabriel Lafayette Dennis (1896–1954) | 1944–1953 |
| 30 | Momolu Dukuly (1903–1980) | 1954–1960 |
| 31 | Joseph Rudolph Grimes (1923–2007) | 1960–1972 |
| 32 | Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks (1923–1986) | 1972–1973 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 33 | Cecil Dennis (1931–1980) | 1973–1980 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 34 | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) | 1980–1981 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 35 | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) | 1981–1983 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 36 | Ernest Eastman (1927–2011) | 1983–1986 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 37 | John Bernard Blamo (born 1935) | 1986–1987 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 38 | Joseph Rudolph Johnson (born 1938) | 1987–1990 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 39 | Gabriel Baccus Matthews (1948–2007) | 1990–1994 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 40 | Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper (1930–2009) | 1994–1995 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 41 | Momoly Sirleaf | 1995–1996 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 42 | Monie R. Captan (born 1962) | 1996–2003 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 43 | Lewis Brown (born 1965) | 2003 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 44 | Thomas Nimely (born 1956) | 2003–2006 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 45 | George Wallace (born 1938) | 2006–2007 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 46 | Olubanke King Akerele (born 1946) | 2007–2010 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| — | Sylvester Grigsby (acting) | 2010 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 47 | Toga G. McIntosh (born 1942?) | 2010–2012 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 48 | Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan (born 1970) | 2012–2015 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| — | B. Elias Shoniyin | 2015–2016 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 49 | Marjon Kamara (born 1949) | 2016–2018 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 50 | Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (born 1960) | 2018–2020 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| — | Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh (born 1949) | 2020 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 51 | Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. (born 1965) | 2020–2024 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 52 | Sara Beysolow Nyanti (born 1968) | 2024–present | Minister of Foreign Affairs |