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Senior may refer to:

• Senior citizen, a common polite designation for an elderly person in both UK and US English
• Senior (album), a 2010 album by Röyksopp
• Senior (education), a student in the final year of high school, college or university
• A suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent
• Senior Bowl, a post-season college football exhibition game played in Mobile, Alabama
• Senior debt, a form of corporate finance
• Senior status, form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges
• Seniors (film), a 2011 Indian Malayalam film
• The Senior, a 2003 album by Ginuwine
• The Seniors, a 1978 American comedy film

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• Clarence Senior (1903–1974), American socialist political activist
• Julio Ximenes Senior (1901–1975), Brazilian scientist and Army general
• Keith Senior (born 1976), English rugby league player
• Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), English economist
• Peter Senior (born 1959), Australian golfer

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• Wise old man, archetype
• Senioritis, colloquial term used in the United States and Canada

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Elijah Johnson (ca. 1789^[A] – April 3, 1849) was an African American who was one of the first colonial agents of the American Colonization Society in what later became Liberia. He was probably born in New Jersey, received some limited schooling in New Jersey and New York, served as a soldier in the War of 1812 and studied for the Methodist ministry. He had two children out of wedlock, Lewis Johnson (1810 – 1838) and Charles Johnson (born 1812). He latter married and had one daughter Elizabeth (born 1818) with his wife Mary Johnson.^[1]

In 1820, Johnson emigrated on the ship Elizabeth to West Africa and landed on Sherbro Island in what is today Sierra Leone on March 9, 1820. The settlers had difficulty surviving, with many including his wife Mary dying from Malaria and yellow fever. In 1821, the surviving settlers moved to Providence Island near what is today Monrovia. There, Johnson married Rachel Wright (born ca. 1798), with whom he had several additional children, including Hilary Johnson, who would become the eleventh President of Liberia in 1884.^[2]

Johnson became the colonial agent of the American Colonization Society after the death of the white first colonial agent Eli Ayers and his black successor Frederick James. He served in this role from June 4, 1822 until August 8, 1822 and again from April 2, 1823 until August 14, 1823 and was replaced by Jehudi Ashmun. He was then appointed Commissary of Stores but was also active in politics. In 1847, he was one of the signers of the Liberian Declaration of Independence. Johnson died in 1849 in White Plains, a missionary station in the interior of Liberia.^[3]

Elijah Johnson was of mixed raced ancestry, and was born about 1790 probably in New York. Two of his children that are seldom mentioned are Sarah (b. about 1811), and Elijah Johnson Junior (born about 1812). Sarah and her brother Elijah were left in an Orphanage in Chester County in 1816. There was no mention of who their mother was, but the father was listed as the Negro Elijah Johnson. He came into Pennsylvania from New York, prior to the War of 1812, in which he served. After the War, he studied at a Methodist School and and was ordained as a Minister of the Methodist Church in Northern New York. He is probably a descendant of Molly Brant a Mohawk woman and her white husband William Johnson. Elijah Senior was a member of the American Colonization Society as was his friend Jehudi Ashmun. They traveled to Liberia on the same ship in 1820 along with their wives and children. Many of Elijah's descendants from Liberia now live throughout the United States. His son Hilary R.W. Johnson was the first Liberian/American President.

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^[A] According to the ship records^[4] and the 1843 census of Liberia.^[2] Other sources cite as a birth date ca 1780.^[1]

Wills, Anita L., (2009)Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family; Wills: CA

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