Love Brannon (3 September 1798 – 12 May 1860) was a Liberian Democratic Party politician.
Biography[]
Love Brannon was born on 3 September 1798 on the Fayetteville plantation of North Carolina in the United States, and he was owned by the Brannon family. His master Alexander Brannon freed his slaves in 1825 as he was dying from yellow fever, and Love took his master's last name as his own surname. Brannon moved with several other freed slaves to Liberia as a free man, and he joined the Liberian Democratic Party upon arriving there; Brannon would go on to have a political career. Some of his views included governmental intervention in trade in the country and the creation of a democratic society similar to America, and he served in the Liberian House of Representatives. Brannon died on 12 May 1860 in Monrovia.