Jehudi Ashmun

Agent and governor of Liberia

Jehudi Ashmun (April 21, 1794 – August 25, 1828) was an American religious leader and social reformer from New England who became involved in the American Colonization Society.

It founded the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a place to resettle free people of color from the United States.

Ashmun emigrated to Monrovia, Liberia in 1822, where he served as the United States government's agent (de facto governor) for two different terms: one from August 1822 until April 1824, and another from August 1824 until March 1828.

Suffering ill health, he returned to the United States and died later that year.