William Henry Fitzjohn

William Henry Fitzjohn
Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United States
of  Sierra Leone
to  United States
In office
April 27, 1961  July 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
July 18, 1961  1964
Preceded by Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Succeeded by Richard Edmund Kelfa-Caulker
Sierra Leonean Ambassador to Nigeria
of  Sierra Leone
to  Nigeria
In office
November 1971  1972
Preceded by H.C. Mansaray
Succeeded by 1993-2002: Joe Blell
Personal details
Born November 5, 1915
Mattru Jong
Died January 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.

References

  1. 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.
  2. West Africa Publishing Company, Limited, 1990, p. 257p.123p. 236
  3. Mac Dixon-Fyle, A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984: p. 174
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