Francis A. Dennis

Francis A. Dennis, Sr.
Francis A. Dennis, Sr.
Liberian Ambassador to the United States
	In office; July 15, 1976 – 1979
President	William R. Tolbert Jr.
Preceded by	J. Urias Nelson
Succeeded by	William V. S. Bull
Personal details
Born	24 Aug 1926; Monrovia, Liberia
Died	20 Sep 2008; Falls Church, Virginia
Spouse	Evangeline Baromietta Morris Dennis
Children	2 sons, 2 daughters
Alma mater	University of Liberia

Francis A. Dennis, Sr. was a former Liberian diplomatic with ambassador assignments to the United Kingdom, Ivory Coast, the Soviet Union, Canada and United States.

Personal life

While resident in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Dennis taught Bible class at First Baptist Church, where Jimmy and Rosalind Carter also attended during the Carter administration.^[1]

Dennis died on September 20, 2008, and was interred at the Dennis Family Cemetery in Careysburg, Liberia.^[2]^[3]

Archives

Dennis assisted in developing the Ambassador’s Library at the Liberian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and donated many of his personal papers to the library.^{[citation needed]}

In June 2011, Liberian foreign minister, Dr. Toga Gayewea McIntosh, and the Dennis family presided over the dedication and opening of the Ambassador Francis A. Dennis, Sr. Memorial Library at the Gabriel L. Dennis Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia.^[4] The memorial library was established to support initiatives related to diplomacy, academics and faith. In a statement by Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, she said Dennis “represented the best that this country had to offer… Liberia owes him a debt of gratitude.”