Munah E. Pelham-Youngblood

Munah Evangeline Pelham-Youngblood (22 September 19838 July 2020) was a Liberian politician. She was elected twice to the Liberian House of Representatives. She was the youngest person ever elected to the Liberian parliament. A partisan of the Congress for Democratic Change, she belonged to the inner circle of President George Weah. Her parents were Col. Walter Maxwell Pelham Sr., a senior Liberian National Police officer and head coach of the Liberia national football team, and Elizabeth Pelham, Comptroller of the House of Representatives.

Before being introduced into politics by her husband Pelham-Youngblood worked as a fashion and runway model. She was a beauty queen, and represented Liberia in Miss Malaika International 2004 and Miss Silverbird International in 2005. She was the first runner-up in the Miss Liberia contest of 2005.

Parliamentarian Pelham-Youngblood was elected to the House of Representatives from the 9th District of Montserrado County in the 2011 Liberian general election, at the age of 27, she defeated 20 candidates in the 2011 elections, and as the incumbent in the 2017 Liberian general election, standing as a Congress for Democratic Change candidate she defeated 13 candidates.

In the House of the Representatives, she chaired the committee on the Executive. She served as the secretary general of the Montserrado County Legislative Caucus.

Pelham-Youngblood returned to Liberia on 18 July 2018. A thanksgiving service was held at Lakpazee Community Church in Lakpazee, Sinkor, Monrovia to celebrate her return. In 2019, she was out of Liberia for ten months for medical treatment. She died in Accra, Ghana, on 8 July 2020, aged 36.