Samuel Benedict
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Prior to Liberia's independence, Benedict was a judge of the Superior Court and a merchant.[5] He later presided over the Liberian Constitutional Convention of 1847, which officially declared Liberia's independence from the American Colonization Society.[6][7] He was one of Montserrado County's delegates at the convention and a signer of the Liberian Declaration of Independence.[7]
Representing the Anti-Administration Party (AAP), Benedict was defeated by longtime political foe Joseph Jenkins Roberts in the 1847 election to serve as Liberia's first president.[8][9][10]
Benedict later became the first Chief Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court.[10] He died in 1854.[1]
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- ↑ a b Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon, Back to Africa
- ↑ Howard Temperly, After Slavery
- ↑ Loren Schweninger, Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
- ↑ Roll of Emigrants that have been sent to the colony of Liberia, Western Africa, by the American Colonization Society and its auxiliaries, to September 1843 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Carl Patrick Burrowes, Power and Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970
- ↑ Carl Patrick Burrowes, "Black Christian republicanism: a Southern ideology in early Liberia, 1822-1847", The Journal of Negro History, 2001
- ↑ a b 1847 Constitution of Liberia
- ↑ African Elections Database, "Elections In Liberia"
- ↑ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs, "Promoting Good Governance in Liberia: Towards the Formulation of a National Framework"
- ↑ a b Randall M. Smith, Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family
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