Joseph Boakai

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Joseph Nyumah Boakai (born November 30, 1944) is the Vice-President of Liberia. He is Vice-President to fellow Unity Party member Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. The son of illiterates,^[1] Boakai is a graduate of the College of West Africa,^[1] the University of Liberia, and Kansas State University, which he attended on a USAID grant.^[1] From 1983 to 1985, he served as the Liberian Minister of Agriculture.^[1]

Boakai is a religious Christian, and is a Deacon of the Effort Baptist Church. Boakai is married to Kartumu Cooper. They have three sons.

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1. ^ ^{a b c d} Liberia Vice President Boakai. Frontlines - Inside Development. United States Agency for International Development (April 2006). Retrieved on 2006-10-13.

Preceded by Wesley Momo Johnson

Vice-President of Liberia 2003–

Succeeded by Incumbent

v • d • e Vice-Presidents of Liberia Stephen Allen Benson • Beverley Yates • James Priest • James S. Smith • Alfred F. Russell • John Tyler • William D. Coleman • J. J. Ross • J. J. Dossen • John Breckinridge • Samuel Alfred Ross • Henry Too Wesley • Allen Yancy • Clarence Lorenzo Simpson • William R. Tolbert, Jr. • James E. Greene • Bennie Dee Warner • Harry Moniba • Enoch Dogolea • Moses Blah • Joseph Boakai