Tamba Taylor
Liberian politician
Tamba Taylor, also spelled "Tailor," (September 1898 – October 2000) was a long-serving paramount chief of the Kissi people, Lofa County, Liberia. Taylor served as deputy chairman, along with several other former warlords, of the Council of State at the end of the First Liberian Civil War for 1995 to 1997.
Taylor was born on 29 September, 1898, in a Kissi family in Milimalah, Kissi Chiefdom (in present-day Foya District). His name was Tamba Lamie Kongor. He received no formal education. He later changed his name to 'Taylor', due to his profession as a tailor. He would later claim to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.
Taylor became paramount chief in 1957. He served on various national commissions, most notably the National Unification Programme Taylor of President William Tubman. Taylor became popularly known as 'the millionaire of Lofa'.
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