The Ministry of Finance is a

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of the

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. , the Liberian Finance Minister is Boima Kamara, who was appointed in January 2024. 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 & Mechlin Street in

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

Secretaries of the Treasury

* John N. Lewis, 1848-? * John H. Chavers, ?-? * Stephen Allen Benson, ?-1856 * B. J. K. Anderson, 1863-? * William Highland Lynch, ?-1864 * Daniel Bashiel Warner, 1864-1866 * John C. Chavers, 1866-? * Edward J. Roye, ?-? * Frederick Keith Hyde, ?-1868 *

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, 1868-1869 * B. V. R. James 1869 * B. J. K. Anderson, 1870 *

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, 1870-1871 * Edward Farrow Roye, 1871-? * 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, 1883-1892 * Arthur Barclay, 1896–1903 * Daniel Edward Howard, 1904-1912 * Thomas W. Haynes, 1912 * John L. Morris, 1912-1914-? * James F. Cooper, 1915-1917 * Walter F. Walker, 1917-1920 * J. Jeremiah Harris, 1920-1926-? * A. W. Melon, ?-1927-? * Samuel George Harmon, 1928-? * James F. Cooper, 1930 * John L. Morris, 1930-? * Dixon Byrd Brown, 1932-1933 *

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, 1933-1940 * William E. Dennis, 1944-1958 * Charles Dunbar Sherman, 1958-1968 * James Milton Weeks, 1968-1971 * James Milton Weeks, 1971-1972

Ministers of Finance

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

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

, 1990 * Stephen Byron Tarr, January - November 1991 * Francis C. Karpeh, June 1991 - March 1994 * Wilson Tarpeh, May 1994- August 1995 * Lansana Kromah, September 1995 - August 1997 *

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, August 1997-1999 * John G. Bestman, 1999 * Milton Nathaniel Barnes, 1999-2002 * Charles Bright, 2002-2003 * Lusine Kamara, 2003-2006 *

Antoinette Sayeh Antoinette Monsio Sayeh (born 12 July 1958 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian economist and Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Sayeh served as the director of the African Department at the IMF from July 14, 2008, ...

, 2006-2008 * Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, 2008-2012 * Amara Konneh, 2012-2016 * Boima Kamara, 2016-2018 * Samuel D. Tweah, 2018-2024 * Boima Kamara, 2024 * Anthony Myers, acting, 2024–present

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Secretaries of the Treasury

Ministers of Finance

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