POLITICIAN

Joseph Jenkins Roberts

1809 - 1876

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Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was an American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician. Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence, he was the first man of African descent to govern the country, serving previously as governor from 1841 to 1848. He later returned to office following the 1871 Liberian coup d'état. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Jenkins Roberts has received more than 689,418 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Joseph Jenkins Roberts is the 8,855th most popular politician (up from 9,562nd in 2019), the 3,002nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,477th in 2019) and the 187th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 8,855 out of 19,576. Before him are Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Lu Xiufu, Donald Maclean, Julius Raab, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Theodora Angelina. After him are Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Shintaro Abe, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Henry Wilson, Koçi Xoxe, and Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 32. Before him are Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Mariano José de Larra, François Certain de Canrobert, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Edward FitzGerald, and Hannibal Hamlin. After him are Jules Favre, Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, Heinrich Hoffmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Karl Koch, and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin. Among people deceased in 1876, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 32. Before him are Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, Eugène Fromentin, George Smith, Friedrich Christian Diez, Friedrich von Berchtold, and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. After him are Louise Colet, Giacomo Antonelli, Aleksander Fredro, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Karl Eichwald, and Johann Löwenthal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 3,002 out of 20,380. Before him are Elihu Root (1845), Ben Wallace (1974), Bruce Beutler (1957), Claude Akins (1926), Charles Berlitz (1913), and Tico Torres (1953). After him are Henry Wilson (1812), Matthew Modine (1959), Jesse Ventura (1951), Abe Vigoda (1921), Sydne Rome (1951), and Esther Williams (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 187. Before him are Michael Dukakis (1933), Winfield Scott (1786), Elbridge Gerry (1744), Ronald Inglehart (1934), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), and Elihu Root (1845). After him are Henry Wilson (1812), Jesse Ventura (1951), Oliver Winchester (1810), George Mason (1725), Levi P. Morton (1824), and Mangas Coloradas (1792).

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