Thomas Buchanan (November 19, 1808 – September 3, 1841) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the first official governor of Liberia for...
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Buchanan (Bassa: Gbezohn), also previously known as Grand Bassa on some maps, is the third largest city in Liberia, lying on Waterhouse Bay, part of the...
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politician Thomas Buchanan (Governor of Liberia) (1808–1841), first governor of Liberia and cousin of James Buchanan, president of the United States Thomas Buchanan...
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of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Prior to the independence of Liberia in 1847, executive power in the Commonwealth of Liberia was held by the governor...
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts (category Agents and Governors of Liberia)
vice governor. Two years later, after the death of governor Thomas Buchanan, Roberts was appointed as the first African-American governor of Liberia. Roberts’...
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agents and governors of Liberia, consisting of fourteen agents and two governors of the American Colonization Society from 1822 until Liberian independence...
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(1808–1841), second governor of Liberia Thomas Buchanan (born 1963), Unionist politician from Northern Ireland Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846–1911), Scottish Liberal...
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Stephen Allen Benson (category Ministers of finance of Liberia)
country of Liberia, sailing aboard the Brig Strong. For four years, he was a military shopkeeper. He was also a private secretary to Thomas Buchanan, the...
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Mississippi-in-Africa (redirect from List of colonial heads of Mississippi-in-Africa)
colony June 1837 — Josiah Finley named governor September 10, 1838 — Finley murdered 1841 — Thomas Buchanan named Acting Agent (but not in residence)...
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Jacob W. Prout (category Members of the Senate of Liberia)
until 1840, when Governor Thomas Buchanan abolished Prout's post to cut the colony's costs. On 5 July 1847, the delegates to Liberia's constitutional convention...
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Sion Harris (category Members of the House of Representatives of Liberia)
found in the vicinity by Liberian militiamen. His corpse was decapitated, and the head was presented to Governor Thomas Buchanan. Harris was widely praised...
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Back-to-Africa movement (category People of Liberated African descent)
first President and founding father of Liberia Thomas Peters, African-American Black Loyalist leader and founder of Freetown, Sierra Leone (departed after...
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USS Saratoga (1842) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
Perry followed two days later with the rest of the squadron bringing along as a guest Liberian Governor Joseph Jenkins Roberts. The American warships...
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Green Mount Cemetery (category Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore)
Governor of Maryland Edward Nathaniel Brush (1852–1933), psychiatrist and superintendent of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital James M. Buchanan (1803–1876)...
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States) List of U.S. state governors born outside the United States List of United States senators born outside the United States List of foreign-born...
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John C. Breckinridge (redirect from Death of John C. Breckinridge)
headed by James Buchanan. The Democrats won the election, but Breckinridge had little influence with Buchanan, and as presiding officer of the Senate, could...
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Abraham Lincoln (redirect from 16th President of the United States of America)
nominated former Secretary of State James Buchanan and the Know-Nothings nominated former Whig President Millard Fillmore. Buchanan prevailed, while Republican...
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Grand jury (category History of local government in Ireland)
a lesser extent, Liberia and Japan. Grand juries perform both accusatory and investigatory functions. The investigatory functions of grand juries include...
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Woodrow Wilson (redirect from Thomas W. Wilson)
1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning...
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Simon Cameron (category American people of Pennsylvania Dutch descent)
emigrated to Liberia and became that country's minister to Russia. Although like most Republican senators, Cameron distrusted President Buchanan, he supported...
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James Monroe (redirect from 5th President of the United States of America)
Colonization Society which supported the colonization of Africa by freed slaves, and Liberia's capital of Monrovia is named in his honor. Following his retirement...
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Deaths in June 2023 (category Lists of deaths in 2023)
(Aberdeen, national team). Florence Chenoweth, 78, Liberian politician and agriculture specialist, minister of agriculture (1977–1979, 2009–2015). John Cockbill...
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Guinea (redirect from Republic of Guinea)
Guinea-Bissau), and Liberia. Under the French, the country formed the Territory of Guinea within French West Africa, administered by a governor general resident...
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January 7, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New Yorker, August 4, 2011. Thomas Allen. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. New York...
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Matthew C. Perry (category American people of English descent)
Freeman Perry, a surgeon, and Mercy Hazard, a descendant of Governor Thomas Prence, a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, who was a political leader in...
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Corwin Amendment (category Secession crisis of 1860–61)
the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln sent a letter to each state's governor transmitting the proposed amendment, noting that Buchanan had approved it...
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Deaths in August 2023 (category Lists of deaths in 2023)
(in Russian) Barton, Thomas Alfred (Tom) Gerd Bauer gestorben (in German) Liberia: Henry Reed Cooper, Former Chief Justice of Liberia, Dies at 82 Anand actor...
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President of Pakistan Abdullah II, King of Jordan Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia Rosalynn Carter wife of former President of the United...
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Liberia – Robert Arthington, an attorney and philanthropist from Leeds, England Barclayville – Edwin Barclay, President of Liberia Buchanan – Thomas Buchanan...
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Abolitionism in the United States (category Origins of the American Civil War)
Republic of Liberia. From 1832 onward most of the migrants were enslaved people who had been freed on the condition that they go to Liberia.[citation...
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