Grace Minor
Grace Beatrice Minor (born May 31, 1942) is an Americo-Liberian politician who served as the first female President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 2002 to 2003. She was senator for Montserrado County. Minor was a close ally of president Charles Taylor. Career In 1976, Minor was commissioner of oldest Congotown. In 1980, she was chosen to represent Congotown in the forthcoming elections prior to the coup. Minor was a top aide and close confidante to Taylor when he was head of the General Services Agency, from which he was accused by Samuel Doe of embezzling almost a million US dollars. After he escaped from prison in the United States in 1985, she relocated back to Liberia to support him in founding the National Patriotic Front of Liberia and in financing the civil war. She opened a Swiss bank account for him in 1993. She was regarded as second in Taylor's hierarchy, and as his political and business partner, she was considered the "power behind the throne." Minor was the proponent of the "selective elimination" of the indigenous Liberian leaders in the NPFL, a practice which was so prevalent that in 1992 the Economic Community of West African States accused