Maximilien Liongo

{{Short description|Congolese politician}}

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| birth_place = Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Maximilien Liongo was a Congolese politician.{{Cite book |last=Merriam |first=p alan |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.110664 |title=Congo Background Of Conflict |date=1961}}{{Cite web |title=Politics in the Congo : decolonization and independence {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/307971 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}} He was appointed as the first Secretary of State for Justice of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under Lumumba Government that ran from 24 June until 12 September 1960 under the leadership of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

File:First Congolese government.jpg (left center) with his first government including Maximilien Liongo outside the Palais de la Nation soon after swearing-in ceremony]].