Liberia 



Daniel Bashiel Warner, January ist, 1864, to January 



1st, 1868. 

 James Spriggs Payne, January ist, 1868, to January ist, 1870. 

 Edward James Roye, January ist, 1870, to October 19th, 



1 87 1 (deposed). 

 (Vice-President) James S. Smith, October 19th, 1871, to 



January ist, 1872. 

 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, January ist, 1872, to January 



1st, 1876. 

 James Spriggs Payne, January ist, 1876, to January ist, 1878. 

 Anthony William Gardner, January ist, 1878, to January 



20th, 1883. 

 (Vice-President) Alfred F. Russell, January 20th, 1883, to 



January ist, 1884. 

 Hilary Richard Wright Johnson, January ist, 1884, to 



January ist, 1892. 

 Joseph James Cheeseman, January ist, 1892, to November 



1 2th, 1896. 

 (Vice-President) WILLIAM David Coleman, November 12th, 



1896, to January ist, 1898. 

 William David Coleman, January ist, 1898, to December 



nth, 1900. 

 (Secretary of State) Garretson Wilmot Gibson, December 



iith, 1900, to January 1st, 1902. 

 Garretson Wilmot Gibson, January ist, 1902, to January 



1st, 1904. 

 Arthur Barclay, January ist, 1904. Re-elected for further 



term from January ist, 1906. 



The Cabinet and Executive usually consists of the President, 

 the Secretary of State (at present time Hon. H. W. Travis), the 

 Secretary of the Treasury (Hon. D. E. Howard), the Attorney- 

 General (Hon. F. E. R. Johnson), the Secretary of the Interior 

 (vacant), the Secretary of War and Navy (Hon. J. B. Dennis), and 

 the Postmaster-General (Hon. S. T. Prout). There is an official 

 private secretary to the President (N. H. Gibson). 



The Senate is composed of eigJU members — two from each 

 of the four counties or provinces (Montserrado, Basa, Sino, and 



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