Gershon Collier

Career

• He was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple Inns of Court, London
• In 1958 when Albert Margai left the Sierra Leone People's Party, Gershon Collier was one of the supporters and was a member of that People's National Party's first executive committee.
• In 1961 he became Sierra Leone's first permanent representative to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
• On October 16, 1963 he was designated concurrently ambassador in Washington, D.C. war he was concurrently accredited from til.
• He got in contact with Gamal Abdel Nasser who became Godparent of his son Gamal.
• In 1967, Albert Margai arranged his nomination as chief justice of Sierra Leone.
• But Albert Margai lost the election in 1967 and Collier lost his office as chief justice.
• In 1967 when the Siaka Stevens government followed Collier migrated to New York City where he took a teaching appointment at New York University.