1855 Liberian general election

none Liberia 1857 Liberian general election 1857 1853 Liberian general election 1853 1855 yes Presidential election presidential Stephen Allen Benson (cropped).jpg Stephen Allen Benson True Liberian Party Edward James Roye c. 1850 (cropped).jpg Edward James Roye Old Whig Party President Joseph Jenkins Roberts True Liberian Party Stephen Allen Benson True Liberian Party General elections were held in Liberia in 1855 to elect the president of Liberia, with incumbent president Joseph Jenkins Roberts declining to run for a fifth term in office.Stephen Allen Benson (1816-1865) National Portrait Gallery The presidential election resulted in a victory for Vice-President Stephen Allen Benson of the True Liberian Party, who defeated Edward James Roye of the Whig Party.https://books.google.com/books?id=Dvsl6dyDDpgC&pg=PA21 Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832–1912 Hollis R. Lynch 1970 21 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-536546-7 Liberian History Before 1857: A Reference for Elementary Pupils Joseph Saye Guannu 1977 57 Beverly P. Yates was elected vice-president.Liberians All 1948 57 Benson took office as the country's second president on 7 January 1856, with Roberts making a speech at Benson's inauguration.Presidential Power Transfer In Liberian History, Joseph Jenkins Roberts To Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Perspective, 26 September 2017 References Liberia General Category:Elections in Liberia Liberia Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results