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Joseph Jenkins Roberts

1809 - 1876

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Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was an Americo-Liberian 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 642,741 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Joseph Jenkins Roberts is the 9,589th most popular politician (down from 9,381st in 2019), the 3,487th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,555th in 2019) and the 221st most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 9,589 out of 15,577Before him are Yves Leterme, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Georges Marchais, Hadadezer, Igor Moiseyev, and John Profumo. After him are Constance of France, Princess of Antioch, Cuilén, Tiridates II of Parthia, Nebettawy, Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, and Djehuti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 40Before him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Jules Favre, Edward FitzGerald, Heinrich Hoffmann, Matsumura Sōkon, and Karl Koch. After him are James Glaisher, Kit Carson, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Cyrus McCormick, Rutherford Alcock, and Louis Charles Delescluze. Among people deceased in 1876, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 31Before him are Friedrich Christian Diez, Eugène Fromentin, Harriet Martineau, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Philipp Mainländer, and Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza. After him are Aleksander Fredro, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Karl Eichwald, Giacomo Antonelli, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, and Braxton Bragg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 3,487 out of 18,182Before him are John Marshall (1755), Tito Jackson (1953), Claire Danes (1979), George Raft (1901), Joshua Fishman (1926), and Erica Jong (1942). After him are Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (1958), Don Felder (1947), Herb Alpert (1935), George Clinton (1941), Tony Sirico (1942), and Joel Grey (1932).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Joseph Jenkins Roberts ranks 221Before him are Ross Perot (1930), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), Michael Dukakis (1933), Black Hawk (1767), Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), and George Koval (1913). After him are Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), William P. Rogers (1913), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), and Judith Reisman (1935).