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Since Sierra Leone was granted independence by the Sierra Leone Independence Act 1961, rather than being first established as a semi-autonomous dominion and later promoted to independence as defined by the Statute of Westminster 1931, the governor-general was to be always appointed solely on the advice of the Cabinet of Sierra Leone without the ...
This is a list of colonial administrators in Sierra Leone from the establishment of the Province of Freedom Colony by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor which lasted between 1787 and 1789 and the list of colonial administrators of the Colony of Sierra Leone and the settlement of Freetown established by the Sierra Leone Company in March 1792 until Sierra Leone's independence in 1961.
Governor-General of Sierra Leone (1961–1971) President of Sierra Leone (1971–1978, 2018–present) Formation: 27 April 1961 8 May 2018 (restored) First holder: Milton Margai: Abolished: 15 June 1978 – 8 May 2018
The nation held its first general elections on 27 May 1962, and Sir Milton Margai was elected Sierra Leone's first prime minister by a landslide. [8] Milton Margai's political party, the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), won by large margins in the nation's first general election under universal adult suffrage in May 1962 under universal ...
Joseph Saidu Momoh (President) Limba: Christianity: November 28, 1985 – April 29, 1992 Siaka Probyn Stevens: Limba: Christianity: April 26, 1967 - April 26, 1967 (Prime Minister) April 22, 1968 - November 28, 1985 (Prime Minister later President) Christopher Okoro Cole [b] (Governor-general and President) Krio: Christianity: April 19, 1971 ...
In April 1971, Stevens made Sierra Leone a republic and became president a day after the constitution had been ratified by the Sierra Leone Parliament. Though generally considered as the first president of Sierra Leone, technically he was the second President of the Republic after Christopher Okoro Cole , a judge, who was sworn in for a day ...
Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE (7 May 1844 – 25 June 1908) was a career British colonial governor, serving as Governor of Sierra Leone from 1880, of Natal, of Madras, of Ceylon from 1890 to 1895, and of Tasmania from 1901 to 1904.
The governor of Ceylon was the representative in Ceylon of the British Crown from 1795 to 1948. In this capacity, the governor was president of the Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Ceylon. The governor was the head of the British colonial administration in Ceylon, reporting to the Colonial Office.