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James L. Curtis (1870 – October 24, 1917) was the American Minister Resident/Consul General to Liberia (1915–1917). During his tenure, Curtis was able to obtain Liberia's support for the Allied cause in World War I.

Curtis died in Free Town, Sierra Leone where he had gone to have an operation related to an undisclosed illness. Prior to his tenure as ambassador, he was a lawyer most closely associated with Tammany Hall.

References

1. "James L. Curtis (1870–1917)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
2. Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I
3. "James L. Curtis Dies in Africa". The New York Age. November 1, 1917. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

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• Liberia and the First World War 1914–1926

v t e United States ambassadors to Liberia
Commissioner and Consul General	Hanson
Minister Resident/Consul General	Seys Turner Smythe Garnet Smythe Hopkins Taylor E. E. Smith Clark McCoy Heard O. L. W. Smith Crossland Lyon Crum Buckner Curtis Johnson Hood Francis
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Mitchell Walton Lanier Dudley
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Dudley Locker Jones Mathews Rhetts Brown Westerfield Manfull Carter R. P. Smith Swing Perkins Bishop de Vos Myrick Blaney Booth Thomas-Greenfield Malac Boulware (acting) Elder McCarthy

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