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The Ministry of Finance is a government ministry of the Republic of Liberia. As of 2024[update], the Liberian Finance Minister is Boima Kamara, who was appointed in January 2024.[1] The minister is appointed by the President of Liberia, with the consent of Senate of Liberia.
The ministry's offices are located in Broad & Mechlin Street in Monrovia.[2]
The ministry was led by a secretary of the treasury before 1972, and since 1972 minister of finance.
On 11 December 2023, the U.S. State Department publicly designated Tweah and two members of the Senate of Liberia as pursuant to Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023, for "involvement in significant corruption by abusing their public positions through soliciting, accepting, and offering bribes to manipulate legislative processes and public funding, including legislative reporting and mining sector activity."[3]
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Secretaries of the Treasury
- John N. Lewis, 1848-?[4]
- Stephen Allen Benson, ?-1856[4]
- John C. Chavers, ?-1866-?[4]
- Edward J. Roye, ?-?[5]
- W. H. Lynch, ?-?
- Daniel Beams, ?-1868-1869-?[6]
- B. J. K. Anderson, 1870[6]
- Edward F. Roye, 1871-?[7]
- Frederick Keith Hyde, ?-?[4]
- Henry W. Dennis, 1874-1876[4]
- James T. Wiles, 1876[4]
- John R. Freeman, 1876[4]
- B. J. K. Anderson, 1876-1878[6]
- William H. Roe, 1878-1883[8]
- Moore T. Worrell, 1883-?[8]
- Arthur Barclay, 1896–1900[9]
- Arthur Barclay, 1900–1903
- Daniel Edward Howard, 1904-1912[4]
- Thomas W. Haynes, ?-1912[10][4]
- John L. Morris, 1912-?[10]
- Walter F. Walker, 1917-1920[11]
- J. Jeremiah Harris, 1920-1926-?[4]
- Samuel George Harmon, 1928-?[4][12]
- James F. Cooper, ?-1930[13][4]
- John L. Morris, 1930-?[13][4]
- Gabriel Lafayette Dennis, 1932-1940[14]
- William E. Dennis, 1944-1958[4]
- Charles Dunbar Sherman, 1958-1968[15]
- James Milton Weeks, 1968-1971[4]
- James Milton Weeks, 1971-1972[16]
Ministers of Finance
- Stephen A. Tolbert, 1972-1975[16][4]
- Edwin Williams, 1975-1976[16][4]
- James T. Phillips, 1976-1979[16][4]
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 1979-1980[16][4]
- Perry G. Zulu, 1980-1981[16][4]
- George K. Dunye, 1981[16][4]
- G. Alvin Jones, 1981-1986[16][4]
- Robert C. Tubman, 1986-1987
- John G. Bestman, 1987-1988
- David Farhat, 1988-1989
- Emmanuel Shaw, 1989-1990[17]
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 1990[18]
- Byron Tarr, 1990-1992[16]
- Francis C. Karpeh, 1992-1994[19]
- Wilson Tarpeh, 1994-1995[20]
- Lansana Kromah, 1995-1997[21]
- Elias Saleeby, 1997-1999[16]
- John G. Bestman, 1999[16]
- Milton Nathaniel Barnes, 1999-2002[22]
- Charles Bright, 2002-2003[23]
- Lusine Kamara, 2003-2006
- Antoinette Sayeh, 2006-2008[24]
- Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, 2008-2012[citation needed]
- Amara Konneh, 2012-2016[25]
- Boima Kamara, 2016-2018[26]
- Samuel D. Tweah, 2018-2024[27]
- Boima Kamara, 2024-[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "President Boakai Makes Initial Appointments In Government | The Executive Mansion". www.emansion.gov.lr. The Executive Mansion.
- ^ "Ministry of Finance and Development Planning". mfdp.
- ^ Office of the Spokesperson (11 December 2023). "Leveraging Tools to Promote Accountability and Counter Global Corruption". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
Samuel Tweah, Liberian Minister of Finance and Development Planning, and Liberian Senators Albert Chie and Emmanuel Nuquay. Pursuant to Section 7031(c), the United States is publicly designating Tweah, Chie, and Nuquay, afor [sic] their involvement in significant corruption by abusing their public positions through soliciting, accepting, and offering bribes to manipulate legislative processes and public funding, including legislative reporting and mining sector activity. As part of this action, their immediate family members are also designated, including their spouses Delecia Berry Tweah, Abigail Chie, and Ruthtoria Brown Nuquay, and Tweah and Nuquay's minor children.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (20 December 2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9781461659310.
- ^ "Edward J. Roye » LiberiaInfo". LiberiaInfo. 6 March 2012.
- ^ a b c Fairhead, James; Geysbeek, Tim; Holsoe, Svend E.; Leach, Melissa (13 November 2003). African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253110041.
- ^ "The African Repository and Colonial Journal". American Colonization Society. 1871.
- ^ a b "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1883 - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
- ^ "Arthur Barclay – HPSOL".
- ^ a b Dunn, D. Elwood (4 May 2011). The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010: State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783598441691.
- ^ Johnson, Phillip James. "Seasons in hell: Charles S. Johnson and the 1930 Liberian Labor Crisis".
- ^ Dunn, D. Elwood (4 May 2011). The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010: State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783598441691.
- ^ a b "Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1930, Volume III - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
- ^ Garvey, Marcus (5 December 1995). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. IX: Africa for the Africans June 1921-December 1922. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520916821.
- ^ "Remembering Charles Dunbar Sherman on His 100th Anniversary". October 16, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (December 20, 2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9781461659310 – via Google Books.
- ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. Jan-Oct 1989. 2003. hdl:2027/uc1.c049297898 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1990Mar-Dec. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435083692814 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. Mar.-Oct. 1992. 2003. hdl:2027/nyp.33433070825298 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1994May-Aug 1994. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435083447946 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments / National Foreign Assessment Center. 1995Sep-Dec 1995. 2003. hdl:2027/osu.32435083448365 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "AllGov - Officials". www.allgov.com.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Antoinette Monsio Sayeh: Director, African Department". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
- ^ "Ministry of Finance". www.mof.gov.lr. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "President Sirleaf Makes Additional Appointments in Government".
- ^ Stewart, John H. T. (July 25, 2018). "Profile of 2018 National Independence Day Orator, Samuel D. Tweah".
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