Cletus Wotorson

{{Short description|Liberian politician (1937–2024)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Cletus Wotorson

|image =

|office = Member of the Senate of Liberia
from Grand Kru County

|alongside = Peter Sonpon Coleman

|term_start = 13 January 2006

|term_end = 13 August 2024

|predecessor = NTLA

|successor = Vacant

|office2 = Liberian Minister of Lands and Mines

|president2 = William R. Tolbert Jr.

|term_start2 = August 1978

|term_end2 = April 1980

|predecessor2 = Aaron Holmes

|successor2 = Willie P. Nebo

|birth_name = Cletus Segbe Wotorson

|birth_date = {{birth date|1937|3|13|df=y}}

|birth_place = Liberia

|death_date = {{death date and age|2024|8|13|1937|3|13|df=y}}

|death_place =

|party = Unity Party

|otherparty = Liberian Action Party
Alliance of Political Parties

|spouse =

|children =

|alma_mater = Wesleyan University

|religion =

}}

Cletus Segbe Wotorson (13 March 1937 – 13 August 2024) was a Liberian politician and geologist. On 26 March 2009, he was elected as President Pro Tempore of the Senate of Liberia, beating out fellow Senator Gbehzohngar Milton Findley.[http://www.theliberiantimes.com/article_2009_03_26_3400.shtml Liberia: Senator Cletus Wotorson elected new President Pro-tempore of the Liberian senate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201004352/http://theliberiantimes.com/article_2009_03_26_3400.shtml |date=1 December 2010 }} The Liberian Times, 26 March 2009 He served until 2012.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saY4ubEU20QC|title=The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010: State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature|first=D. Elwood|last=Dunn|date=4 May 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|via=Google Books}} Wotorson died on 13 August 2024, at the age of 87.{{cite news |title=Former Senate Pro Tempore Cletus Wotorson Dies |url=https://www.liberianobserver.com/news/former-senate-pro-tempore-cletus-wotorson-dies/article_0b647d72-59f1-11ef-b011-c3e1f3b4aa5a.html |access-date=14 August 2024 |publisher=Daily Observer |date=14 August 2024}}