The minister of foreign affairs is a cabinet minister of Liberia in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a government ministry responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country.

Originally called the secretary of state, the position assumed its current name in 1972.

Between 1848 and 1981, every officeholder came from Montserrado County, Liberia's most populous county. The first individual to fill the post from outside of Montserrado was H. Boimah Fahnbulleh, Jr., who was originally from Grand Cape Mount County.

List of officeholders

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Portrait Name Tenure Title 1 Hilary Teage 1848–1850 Secretary of State 2 John N. Lewis 1850–1854 3 Daniel Bashiel Warner 1854–1856 4 James Skivring Smith 1856–1860 5 John N. Lewis 1860–1862 6 William Highland Lynch 1862–1864 7 Edward Wilmot Blyden 1864–1865 8 Hilary R. W. Johnson 1866–1867 9 John N. Lewis 1867–1869 10 William Andrew Johnson 1869–1870 11 John N. Lewis 1870–1871 12 Hilary R. W. Johnson 1871–1874 13 James Elijah Moore 1874–1876 14 James Skivring Smith 1876–1877 15 John W. Blackledge 1877 16 Hilary R. W. Johnson 1877–1878 17 Garretson W. Gibson 1878–1884 18 Ernest J. Barclay 1884–1888 19 William McCall Davis 1888–1890 20 Ernest J. Barclay 1890–1892 — Arthur Barclay 1892 21 Garretson W. Gibson 1892–1900 22 Walter van Dyke Gibson 1900–1904 23 Hilary Wilmot Travis 1904–1908 24 F. E. R. Johnson 1908–1912 25 Charles D. B. King 1912–1920 26 Edwin Barclay 1920–1930 27 Louis Arthur Grimes 1930–1934 28 Clarence Lorenzo Simpson 1934–1943 29 Gabriel Lafayette Dennis 1944–1953 30 Momolu Dukuly 1954–1960 31 Joseph Rudolph Grimes 1960–1972 32 Rocheforte Lafayette Weeks 1972–1973 Minister of Foreign Affairs 33 Cecil Dennis 1973–1980 34 Gabriel Baccus Matthews 1980–1981 35 Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh 1981–1983 36 Ernest Eastman 1983–1986 37 John Bernard Blamo 1986–1987 38 Joseph Rudolph Johnson 1987–1990 39 Gabriel Baccus Matthews 1990–1994 40 Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper 1994–1995 41 Momoly Sirleaf 1995–1996 42 Monie R. Captan 1996–2003 43 Lewis Brown 2003 44 Thomas Nimely 2003–2006 45 George Wallace 2006–2007 46 Olubanke King Akerele 2007–2010 — Sylvester Grigsby 2010 47 Toga G. McIntosh 2010–2012 48 Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan 2012–2015 — B. Elias Shoniyin 2015–2016 49 Marjon Kamara 2016–2018 50 Gbehzohngar Milton Findley 2018–2020 — Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh 2020 51 Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. 2020–2024 52 Sara Beysolow Nyanti 2024–present

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See also Foreign relations of Liberia Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Liberia) List of diplomatic missions of Liberia

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