 DID YOU KNOW |
Liberia is the oldest Republic on the continent of Africa. The country declared independence in 1847.
Liberia's 18th President, William V.S. Tubman, was the first foreign leader to sleep in the White House as guest of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954. During his state visit, the Blair House, the U.S. government official Guest House was under renovation so, his host, President Eisenhower, invited him to sleep at the White House!!
Liberia was the first African country to have a female Head of State. Madam Ruth Sando Perry headed the five-member Council of State transitional government that took the country to general elections in 1997 that officially ended the Liberian civil conflict and restored the country to democratic, civilian rule.
| A Liberian woman was the first African woman and the second woman in the world to serve as President of the United Nations General Assembly. Mrs. Angie Brooks Randolph served as President of the UN General Assembly in 1969.
The last surviving signatory to the Charter that founded the United Nations in 1945 in San Francisco was a Liberian who died in April 1980. Richard A. Henries, who was Speaker of the Liberian parliament at the time of death, represented the Liberian at that historic ceremony and signed the Charter on behalf of his country. |
