{"id":"andrew-juxon-smith","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-juxon-smith","language":"en","name":"Andrew Juxon-Smith","name_en":"Andrew Juxon-Smith","name_ne":null,"description":"Sierra Leaonean politician","headline":"Sierra Leaonean politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith (30 November 1931 – 1996) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer of Creole descent. Between 27 March 1967 and 18 April 1968, he was Chairman of the National Reformation Council and acting Governor-General, equivalent to head of the Sierra Leonean state. He was additionally Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone. He and the Council were overthrown in April 1968 by a group of low-level military officials led by John Amadu Bangura that restored Sierra Leone to rule by parliament under Siaka Stevens. He later moved to the United States and died in Stapleton, New York.","summary_more":["Juxon-Smith's life is the subject of the short documentary A Forgotten Past, directed by Andreas Hadjipateras in 2018."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1933","date":"1933"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Freetown","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3780"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1996","date":"1996"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Sierra Leone","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1044"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Royal Military Academy Sandhurst","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q575618"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"President of Sierra Leone","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q890010"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Juxon-Smith","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Andrew Juxon-Smith born?","a":"Andrew Juxon-Smith was born on 1933 in Freetown."},{"q":"What positions has Andrew Juxon-Smith held?","a":"Positions held by Andrew Juxon-Smith include: President of Sierra Leone."},{"q":"Where did Andrew Juxon-Smith study?","a":"Andrew Juxon-Smith was educated at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst."}],"related":[{"name":"Julius Maada Bio","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/julius-maada-bio"},{"name":"Ahmad Tejan Kabbah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ahmad-tejan-kabbah"},{"name":"Valentine Strasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/valentine-strasser"},{"name":"Joseph Saidu Momoh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-saidu-momoh"},{"name":"Yahya Kanu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yahya-kanu"},{"name":"Siaka Stevens","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/siaka-stevens"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/andrew-juxon-smith-7c411ac19c.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Voice of America","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Juxon-Smith_illustration.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Andrew Juxon-Smith","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Juxon-Smith","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4757560","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757560","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Andrew Juxon-Smith illustration.png by Voice of America (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Juxon-Smith_illustration.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Andrew Juxon-Smith, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Andrew Juxon-Smith illustration.png — Voice of America, Public domain.","cite":"\"Andrew Juxon-Smith\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-juxon-smith. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-juxon-smith","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-juxon-smith","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-juxon-smith?lang=ne"}}