Smith, J. S. (James Skivring), 1825-1892

found: James Skivring Smith ... [graphic] between 1856 and 1860:daguerreotype (J.S. Smith)

found: African repository and colonial journal, Aug. 1850:p. 249 (J.S. Smith, Pres. of the Lyceum)

found: Hist. dict. of Liberia:p. 161 (Smith, James Skivring, c. 1825-?; 6th pres. of Liberia, 11/1872 to 1/1872)

found: Wikipedia, September 13, 2018(James Skivring Smith; born February 26, 1825, Charleston, South Carolina, to free black parents; arrived with his family in Liberia in 1833, where his parents died of malaria within a year; trained under a white medical doctor of the American Colonization Society, then returned to the United States to study medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine; transferred to Berkshire Medical College, Massachusetts, medical degree 1848; second African American to receive a Doctor of Medicine from an American medical school; returned to newly independent Liberia to work as a physician; elected to the Senate in 1855, representing Grand Bassa County; Secretary of State 1856-1860; elected Vice President in 1869 alongside President Edward James Roye, for the True Whig party; when Roye was forced out of office in 1871, Smith served as president for the two months remaining in the term (Nov. 4, 1871-Jan. 1, 1872); Superintendent of Grand Bassa County 1874-1884; died Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, 1892; his son James Skivring Smith Jr. [1891-1950] was Vice President 1930-1944)