The Ministry of Finance is a

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of the

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. , the Liberian Finance Minister is Samuel D. Tweah, who was appointed in January 2018. The minister is appointed by the

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, with the consent of

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. The ministry's offices are located in Broad Street in

Monrovia Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the ...

. The ministry was led by a secretary of the treasury before 1972, and since 1972 minister of finance.

Secretaries of the Treasury

* John N. Lewis, 1848-? *

Stephen Allen Benson Stephen Allen Benson (May 21, 1816 – January 24, 1865) was a Liberian politician who served as the second president of Liberia from 1856 to 1864. Prior to that, he served as the third vice president of Liberia from 1854 to 1856 under President J ...

, ?-1856 * John C. Chavers, ?-1866-? * Edward J. Roye, ?-? * W. H. Lynch, ?-? * Daniel Beams, ?-1868-1869-? * B. J. K. Anderson, 1870 * Edward F. Roye, 1871-? * Frederick Keith Hyde, ?-? * Henry W. Dennis, 1874-1876 * James T. Wiles, 1876 * John R. Freeman, 1876 * B. J. K. Anderson, 1876-1878 * William H. Roe, 1878-1883 * Moore T. Worrell, 1883-? *

Arthur Barclay Arthur Barclay (31 July 1854 – 10 July 1938) was the 15th president of Liberia from 1904 to 1912. Early life and education Barclay was born at Bridgetown, Barbados, on 31 July 1854, the tenth of twelve children of Anthony and Sarah Barcl ...

, 1896–1900 *

, 1900–1903 *

Daniel Edward Howard Daniel Edward Howard (4 August 1861 – 9 July 1935) was the 16th president of Liberia, serving from 1912 to 1920. Howard was elected president in 1911 and assumed office on 1 January 1912. With the outbreak of World War I, he attempted t ...

, 1904-1912 * Thomas W. Haynes, ?-1912 *

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, 1912-? * Walter F. Walker, 1917-1920 * J. Jeremiah Harris, 1920-1926-? *

Samuel George Harmon Samuel George Harmon (c. 1861 – c. 1929) was a Liberian politician who served as the 17th vice president of Liberia from 1912 to 1920, under President Daniel Edward Howard. He was a member of the True Whig Party which dominated Liberian politics ...

, 1928-? * James F. Cooper, ?-1930 *

, 1930-? *

Gabriel Lafayette Dennis Gabriel Lafayette Dennis (1896–1954) was a Liberian a diplomat and politician. He and Louis Arthur Grimes were Liberia's primary delegates to the 15th assembly of the League of Nations in 1932. He was the Secretary of the Treasury from 1932 to 1 ...

, 1932-1940 * William E. Dennis, 1944-1958 *

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, 1958-1968 *

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, 1968-1971 *

, 1971-1972

Ministers of Finance

* Stephen A. Tolbert, 1972-1975 * Edwin Williams, 1975-1976 * James T. Phillips, 1976-1979 *

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. Sirleaf was born in Mon ...

, 1979-1980 * Perry G. Zulu, 1980-1981 * George K. Dunye, 1981 * G. Alvin Jones, 1981-1986 * Robert C. Tubman, 1986-1987 * John G. Bestman, 1987-1988 *

David Farhat David M. Farhat is a Liberian politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Running as the FDP presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005 elections, Farhat placed 16th out of 22 candidates, receiving 0.5% of the vote. He was Minist ...

, 1988-1989 * Emmanuel Shaw, 1989-1990 *

, 1990 * Byron Tarr, 1990-1992 * Francis C. Karpeh, 1992-1994 *

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, 1994-1995 * Lansana Kromah, 1995-1997 * Elias Saleeby, 1997-1999 * John G. Bestman, 1999 * Milton Nathaniel Barnes, 1999-2002 * Charles Bright, 2002-2003 * Lusine Kamara, 2003-2006 * Antoinette Sayeh, 2006-2008 *

Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan (born April 7, 1970) served from 2012 to 2015 as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, in the administration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Ngafuan was Minister of Finance for Liberia during Johnson-Sirleaf's fi ...

, 2008-2012 * Amara Konneh, 2012-2016 * Boima Kamara, 2016-2018 * Samuel D. Tweah since January 2018

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Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

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