Category:John H. Smythe

John Henry Smyth 

Black American diplomat (1844-1908), ambassador to Liberia
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Date of birth	14 July 1844 Richmond
Date of death	5 September 1908 Richmond
Educated at	Howard University
Occupation	politician
Member of political party	Republican Party
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John H. Smythe (July 14, 1844 - September 5, 1908) was the United States Ambassador to Liberia from 1878-1881 and from 1882 to 1885. Before his appointment, he had various clerkships in the federal government in Washington, DC and in Wilmington, North Carolina. Later in his life he took part in a number of leading African American organizations and was president of a Reformatory School outside of Richmond, Virginia.