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Anthony D. Williams

1799–1860

United States

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Anthony David Williams Sr. (1799 – 1860) was an Americo-Liberian politician who served as the second vice president of Liberia from 1850 to 1854 under President Joseph Jenkins Roberts. Born free in the United States in 1799, he immigrated as a Methodist preacher from Petersburg, Virginia to Liberia in 1823.

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