Samuel Alfred Rosssometimes spelled Samuel Alford Ross or S.A. Ross (October 29, 1870 – December 10, 1929) was an

Americo-Liberian Americo-Liberian people (also known as Congo people or Congau people),Cooper, Helene, ''The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood'' (United States: Simon and Schuster, 2008), p. 6 are a Liberian ethnic group of African Am ...

politician and journalist who served as the 18th

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from 1920 to 1924 under President Charles D. B. King. Born in Greenville,

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, he was the son of Joseph J. Ross, a native of the United States and also a former vice president of Liberia. Prior to his vice presidency, Samuel Ross served in the

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and as the Liberia's Attorney General. He was

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. After his political career, Ross was associate editor of the ''African Agricultural World'' from 1927 to 1929 and postmaster general from 1928 until his death in 1929. Like many Americo-Liberians, Ross was educated in the United States, studying at Lincoln University in

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during the late 1880s.

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Americo-Liberian people 1870 births 1929 deaths Vice presidents of Liberia Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia Members of the Senate of Liberia People from Sinoe County Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) alumni Attorneys general of Liberia 20th-century Liberian politicians Liberian expatriates in the United States {{Liberia-politician-stub