Background
He was born on February 23, 1908, in Monrovia.
He was born on February 23, 1908, in Monrovia.
He left school at 14 to work as a messenger, parcel post clerk, officer in Monrovia customs. He went back to his studies at the graduate College of West Africa in 1931, going to Liberia University to read law.
He then resumed as a customs and later treasury officer, rising to Chief of the Bureau of Mines.
During the World War, he served with the army, attaining the rank of colonel. After the war, he qualified as an attorney at the Bar of Montserrado County and then entered the Post office, rising to Postmaster-General in a position he has held ever since. As secretary-general of Liberia and a senior minister, he was a key member of the Tubman govern- his position was confirmed under the new name of Minister for Postal affairs in President Tolbert’s new cabinet of January 1972.
External telecommunications and Postal facilities have developed in the late fifties and sixties under leadership. Though now the senior cabinet minister, he gets to his on time, ready to do a good day’s as President Tolbert found when 1988 one of his early morning on punctuality in August 1972.