Gershon Collier

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Children one daughter Parents Samuel Adolphus Collier Succeeded by Christopher Okoro Cole		Mother Maria Jeanette Collier Education Fourah Bay College
Preceded by Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker Preceded by Sir Samuel Bankole Jones Spouse(s) In 1954 he married Fashn Dora Father Samuel Adolphus Collier Died 25 May 1994, New York City, New York, United States

Gershon Beresford Onesimus Collier was a Sierra Leonean diplomat, chief justice of Sierra Leone and educator.

Career

He was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple Inns of Court, London

In 1958 when Albert Margai left the Sierra Leone People's Party, Gershon Collier was one of the supporters and was a member of that People's National Party's first executive committee.

In 1961 he became Sierra Leone's first permanent representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.

On October 16, 1963 he was designated concurrently ambassador in Washington, D.C. war he was concurrently accredited from 000000001963-11-20-0000November 20, 1963 til 000000001967-02-17-0000February 17, 1967.

He got in contact with Gamal Abdel Nasser who became Godparent of his son Gamal.

In 1967, Albert Margai arranged his nomination as chief justice of Sierra Leone.

But Albert Margai lost the election in 1967 and Collier lost his office as chief justice.

In 1967 when the Siaka Stevens government followed Collier migrated to New York City where he took a teaching appointment at New York University.

References

Gershon Collier Wikipedia

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