William Henry Fitzjohn

William Henry Fitzjohn

Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United States of Sierra Leone to United States
In office 000000001961-04-27-0000April 27, 1961 – 000000001961-07-18-0000July 18, 1961
Succeeded by	Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Sierra Leone to United Kingdom^[1]
In office 000000001961-07-18-0000July 18, 1961 – 000000001964-01-01-00001964
Preceded by	Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Succeeded by	Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Sierra Leonean Ambassador to Nigeria of Sierra Leone to Nigeria
In office 000000001971-11-01-0000November 1971 – 000000001972-01-01-00001972
Preceded by	H.C. Mansaray
Succeeded by	1993-2002: Joe Blell
Personal details
Born	000000001915-11-05-0000November 5, 1915 Mattru Jong
Died	000000001990-01-28-0000January 28, 1990 Freetown
Spouse(s)	Muriel Alice Cole
Children	Amelia, Ayodele, Dwight, William Jr., Kwame Walter, Mamie Katie and Jonathan Musselman
Alma mater	Albert Academy (Freetown), Diploma and Sierra Leone Teachers Certificate. 1943: Lincoln University (Pa.), B.A.. 1946: United Theological Seminary (Dayton, Ohio), B.D.. 1949: Teachers College, Columbia University (NY), M.A. and Ed.D. 1962: LL-D (Lincoln).

William Henry Fitzjohn was a Sierra Leonean churchman, educator and diplomat.

In 1946 he was Ordained into the Ministry of Evangelical United Brethren Church (Dayton, Ohio).
From 1950 to 1951 he studied Educational Sociology and Religion, Fourah Bay College, University of Durham.
From 1951 to 1957 he was Member of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament.
From 1950 to 1959 he was associate minister King memorial, Evangelical United Brethren church.
From 1959 to 1961 he was Chargé d'affaires in Washington, D.C..^[2]
From 1961 to 1964 he was High Commissioner (Commonwealth) in London (United Kingdom).
in 1962 he became Director of Sierra Leone Selection Trust Ltd.^[3]
From November 1971 to 1972 he was Ambassador in Lagos.^[4]

References

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↑ he was snubbed out of another Howard Johnson's restaurant in Howard Johnson's Early in the spring of 1961, a snub turned into an international incident, when William Fitzjohn, charge d'affaires for Sierre Leone in Washington, en route to Pittsburgh for a lecture, stopped for dinner with his driver at a Howard Johnson restaurant on the outskirts of Hagerstown. Both men were refused service because of their color. President John F. Kennedy, appalled by what had transpired, received Fitzjohn in the White House. The president of Howard Johnson's apologized for the snub while the mayor of Hagerstown, Winslow F. Burhans, invited him to a dinner with several of the city's leading citizens.
↑ West Africa Publishing Company, Limited, 1990, p. 257 p.123 p. 236
↑ Mac Dixon-Fyle, A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: p. 174

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