Beverly Page Yates’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Vice-President of Liberia
A.K.A. Beverly Yates
Was Politician 
Judge 
From Liberia 
Type Law 
Politics 
Gender male
Birth 1 January 1811
Death 1 January 1883
(aged 72 years)

Beverly Page Yates (1811–1883) was an American-Liberian politician who served as the Vice President of Liberia from 1856 to 1860 under President Stephen Allen Benson. Born in the United States, he emigrated to Liberia as a young man under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. Yates also served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Liberia and Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas for Montserrado County, Liberia.

He established a powerful family in the settlement. His brother’s daughter Sarah Yates married Edward Wilmot Blyden, considered a father of the pan-Africanist movement. In 1867 Yates helped found the Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons in Liberia.

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