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.

Joseph Jenkins Roberts was an American-born individual who became the first president of Liberia (1848–56). A native of Virginia, Roberts was the son of free “blacks” whose heritage was more than seven-eighths white.

2016年7月19日 · On July 26, 1847, he declared Liberia independent. He won the first presidential election on October 5, 1847, and was sworn into office as Liberia’s first president on January 3, 1848. Roberts spent the first year of his presidency, seeking recognition of Liberia by European countries and the United States.

After Liberia declared its independence in 1847, Joseph J. Roberts, a freeborn Black who was born in Virginia, was elected Liberia's first president, and Stephen Benson was elected vice-president. Roberts was re-elected three more times to serve a total of eight years, until he lost the election in 1855 to his vice president Stephen Allen Benson.

On Buchanan’s death in 1842, Roberts was appointed the first Black governor of the colony. In efforts to establish the political and economic stability of the colony, Roberts and other colonists sought treaties with native tribes and recognition from foreign powers.

2019年7月22日 · The first several Liberian Presidents were African Americans who left the US for the promise of a better life in Africa. The first president of Liberia was Joseph Jenkins Roberts. He served different terms, between 1848 and 1856 and from 1872 to 1876. He was born in Virginia on March 15, 1809.

Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876), a wealthy Monrovia merchant who had emigrated in 1829 from Petersburg, Virginia, became the first black ACS governor of Liberia in 1841. In 1848, he was elected the first president of an independent Liberia. He achieved international recognition for the new country before leaving the presidency in 1856.

2023年2月16日 · After hearing about the American Colonization Society's efforts to resettle freed Blacks to the colony of Liberia, Jenkins Roberts, 20, emigrated to African colony in 1829. He championed Liberian independence and was elected to …

2022年9月1日 · He was the first president of the Republic of Liberia when the country was declared as an independent nation in July, 1847. Prior to his presidency, he served as the first African-American governor of Liberia for six years.

When in 1847 the Independent Republic of Liberia was created, J.J. Roberts became its First President. He served several terms from 1848 till 1855. After the deposition of the country’s first ‘black’ president, E.J.Roye (in 1871) he was again elected and served another term.