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. Lanier was the first president of what is today Texas Southern University.

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1900 births 1962 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to Liberia 20th-century American diplomats {{US-diplomat-stub