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Edwin Barclay
Edwin James Barclay (January 5, 1882 – November 6, 1955)〔"Barclay, E. J.", Makers of Modern Africa: Profiles in History'', Africa Journal Ltd, 1981, p. 82.〕 was a Liberian politician. A member of the True Whig political party, he served as the 18th President of the country from 1930 until 1944. Under his leadership, Liberia was an ally of the United States during World War II.
== Early life ==
Edwin Barclay's paternal grandparents moved from Barbados to Liberia with their children in 1865. Edwin's father, Ernest Barclay, and uncle, Arthur Barclay, were also important Liberian politicians. In 1901, at the age of 19, Edwin wrote a Liberian patriotic song, "The Lone Star Forever." Barclay and his wife Euphemia's foster son, George Arthur Padmore (1915-2005),〔("Liberia: Ambassador George A. Padmore is Dead", ''Liberian Observer'', 16 April 2005: "George Arthur Padmore was born in Monrovia, Liberia, on July 15, 1915 to the union of James Stanley and Mary Louise Barclay Padmore.... The renowned statesman was the last surviving member of the Liberian delegation to the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. Honorable George A. Padmore, a prominent Liberian statesman, died Friday morning at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, following a brief illness He was in his 90th year." )〕 became the Liberian ambassador to the US.〔(''The Afro American'', December 3, 1955. ) Google Newspaper archives - 2 December 1955.〕〔(''Memoirs of a Liberian Ambassador, George Arthur Padmore'': ) Book Review by J. Kpanneh Doe, ''The Perspective'' (Smyrna, Georgia), 11 April 2000.〕
Children:
*Mary Barclay Dumbar, Siata Isabel Barclay, Earnest Barclay
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