J. J. Dossen

J.J. Dossen, (born: James Jenkins Dossen in Maryland County, Liberia; c.1866: died August 17, 1924cite book |title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers - Volume V: September 1922-August 1924|last= |first= |author=Marcus Garvey |coauthors=Robert A. Hill |year=1983 |publisher=University of California Press |location= |isbn=0520058178 |pages=] ) was Vice-President of Liberia from 1904 to 1912 under President Arthur Barclay. He was elected president of the College of Liberia in 1913,cite book |title=Booker T. Washington Papers - Volume 9: 1906-8 |last= |first= |author=Louis R. Harlan |coauthors=Raymond W. Smock |year=1980 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |location= |isbn=0252007719 |pages=779 ] and associate judge of the Supreme Court of Liberia for 10 years, before holding the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia for 13 years. The J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital in Harper, Maryland County, the only hospital in south-eastern Liberia,cite web |url=http://www.meistermed.com/MSF/liberia.htm |title=Doctors without Borders in Liberia |accessmonthday=March 15 |accessyear=2008 |last= |first= |date= |work= |publisher=Andrew Schechtman] is named after him.

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