LC control no. | no2008070477 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Brooks, Angie Elizabeth, 1928-2007 |
Variant(s) | Brooks-Randolph, Angie E. (Angie Elizabeth), 1928-2007 Randolph, Angie E. Brooks- (Angie Elizabeth Brooks-), 1928-2007 |
Associated country | Liberia |
Associated place | United States |
Birth date | 19280824 |
Death date | 20070909 |
Place of birth | Virginia (Liberia) |
Place of death | Houston (Tex.) |
Affiliation | Shaw University University of Wisconsin Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) Liberia. Supreme Court Howard University United Nations. General Assembly |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers Diplomats Judges |
Found in | Following is a statement by Ambassador Charles W. Yost on the election of Miss Angie Brooks of Liberia as the President of the 24th General Assembly, 1969. OCLC, May 9, 2008 (hdgs.: Brooks, Angie Elizabeth; Brooks, Angie E.; Brooks, Angie; usage: Angie Elizabeth Brooks) Encyclopedia of the nations, via WWW, May 9, 2008: Africa--Liberia--famous Liberians (Angie E. Brooks-Randolph (b.1928) served as president of the 1969/70 UN General Assembly) Daily observer, via WWW, May 9, 2008 (Angie Brooks-Randolph has died; published: 09 Sept. 2007) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brooks-Randolph, Angie Elizabeth; lawyer, diplomat, United Nations official; born 24 August 1928 in Virginia, Montserrado County, Liberia; received BA in social sciences from Shaw University, North Carolina (1949); earned a second undergraduate degree and a master's degree in political science from University of Wisconsin at Madison (1952); studied law at the University of London (1952-1953); admitted to Liberian Bar Association and appointed Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Ministry (1953); earned two additional law degrees, from Shaw University (1962) and Howard University (1967); trained at the United States Foreign Service Institute (1950s); transferred to the Foreign Affairs Ministry as an Assistant Secretary (1958); appointed to Liberia's mission to the United Nations (1954); elected chair of the Trusteeship Council of the General Assembly of the United Nations (1966); elected President of the Twenty-fourth Regular Session of the UN General Assembly; returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; was Liberia's Permanent Representative at UN (1975); appointed to the Supreme Court of Liberia, the first woman to hold the rank of Associate Justice (1977-1980); died 09 September 2007 in Houston, Texas, United States) |