William David Coleman
President of Liberia 1896-1900

Published:  16 September, 2005

William David Coleman was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, USA, in 1842. He came to Liberia at the age of eleven, with his widowed mother and three more family members in 1853. They settled not far from Monrovia, in Clay-Ashland, in Montserrado County. Despite a poor youth - he even had to give up school because of lack of money –he rose to the highest position in the country. He thus followed the footsteps of J.J. Roberts, Liberia’s first President.

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