Raphael O'Hara Lanier (April 28, 1900 – December 17, 1962) was an American diplomat to
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 ...
.
Lanier was a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved int ...
fraternity, the first inter-collegiate
Greek letter
organization established for African Americans.
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Lanier was the first president of what is today
Texas Southern University.
References
1900 births
1962 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Liberia
20th-century American diplomats
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