Edwin James Barclay (5 Januari 1882 – 6 November 1955)[1] adalah seorang politikus, penyair, dan musisi Liberia yang menjabat sebagai Presiden Liberia ke-18 dari tahun 1930 hingga 1944.[2] Ia adalah anggota Partai True Whig, yang mendominasi tata kelola politik negara selama beberapa dekade. Di bawah kepemimpinan Barclay, Liberia menjadi sekutu Amerika Serikat selama Perang Dunia II.
Pada tahun 1901, pada usia 19 tahun, Edwin menulis lagu patriotik Liberia, "The Lone Star Forever". Barclay dan istrinya Euphemia memiliki tiga anak. Selain itu, mereka membina calon Duta Besar Liberia untuk AS, George Arthur Padmore (1915–2005).[3][4][5]
Referensi
- ^ "Barclay, E. J.", Makers of Modern Africa: Profiles in History, Africa Journal Ltd, 1981, p. 82.
- ^ Lipschutz, Mark R. & Rasmussen, R. Kent (1986). Dictionary of African Historical Biography. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520066113.
- ^ "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."
- ^ The Afro American, 3 December 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.
