Samuel Alfred Ross

Samuel Alfred Ross^[1] was an Americo-Liberian politician and journalist born October 29, 1870 in Greenville, Liberia.^[2] He was the son of the former Vice President J.J. Ross, an immigrant from the U.S. state of Georgia. Samuel Alfred Ross served as Vice President of Liberia during the administration of President Charles D.B. King from 1920-1924. He also served in the Liberian Senate in 1910, and as the country's Attorney General in 1912.^[2]

After his political career, Ross was associate editor of the African Agricultural World from 1927 to 1929, and was postmaster general from 1928 until his death. A Presbyterian, Samuel Alfred Ross was educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania during the late 1880s.^[2] Ross died on December 10, 1929, in Liberia.^[2]

References

↑ sometimes spelled Samuel Alford Ross or S.A. Ross
1 2 3 4 Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2004). Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Globalization and Civil Society on Media-government Relations. Africa World Press. pp. 159–160. ISBN 1-59221-294-8.

Political offices
Preceded by Samuel George Harmon	Vice President of Liberia 1920–1924	Succeeded by Henry Too Wesley

Vice Presidents of Liberia

	Nathaniel Brander Anthony D. Williams Stephen Allen Benson Beverley Yates Daniel Bashiel Warner James Priest Joseph Gibson James S. Smith Anthony Gardiner Charles Harmon Alfred F. Russell James Thompson William D. Coleman Joseph J. Ross Joseph D. Summerville J. J. Dossen Samuel George Harmon Samuel Alfred Ross Henry Too Wesley Allen Yancy James S. Smith, Jr. Clarence Simpson William R. Tolbert, Jr. James E. Greene Bennie Dee Warner Harry Moniba Enoch Dogolea Moses Blah Joseph Boakai

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