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James Spriggs Payne

1819–1882

United States

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James Spriggs Payne (December 19, 1819 – January 31, 1882) served as the fourth and eighth president of Liberia, from 1868 to 1870 and from 1876 to 1878. He was the last president to belong to the Republican Party.

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