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	Edwin Barclay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edwin James Barclay (1882-1955) was a Liberian politician.
		Edwin Barclay, a member of the True Whig Party which ruled at that time, served as foreign minister and secretary of state of Liberia in the government of Charles D.B. King from 1920 until 1930.
		Barclay retired in 1944 and was replaced by William Tubman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edwin_Barclay (308 words)

	Arthur Barclay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barclay was born on July 31, 1854 in Bridgetown, Barbados, and was educated in Liberia.
		Arthur Barclay is also the grandfather to Mai Barclay Roberts, a noted member of the clergy and regarded as one of Liberia's most influential religious officials.
		Arthur Barclay was the 14th President of Liberia, serving from November 4, 1904 until January 1, 1912, representing the True Whig Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Barclay (222 words)

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		The decision of President Edwin Barclay (1930-1944) to adopt the US dollar as the sole legal tender in Liberia as from December 31, 1943 very clearly symbolizes the political orientation of the first African Republic as well as its financial and economic dependence.
		One of the first official decisions of President Edwin Barclay was to repeal the famous port of Entry Law of 1864 that had restricted the economic activities of foreigners in the country.
		Thus, when in December 1943 President Edwin Barclay’s decided to outlaw the British pound and to make the US dollar the only legal tender in the country, it was a logical decision that confirmed the political orientation of the country as well as its financial and economic dependence.
	www.liberiapastandpresent.org /BarclayEdwin.htm (969 words)

	HOI2Chp1 (Page 4)
		Edwin and his younger brother, Barclay, at last determined to join the young men who were drilling at the Maxson farm and to follow wherever the old liberator should strike the next blow for emancipation.
		Edwin’s body was taken by his friends to his boyhood home at Salem, and there laid to rest among his kindred.
		Barclay was so near death from his terrible sufferings that his Springdale friends determined to defend him in his own home from surrender to the Virginia hangman.
	iagenweb.org /history/hoi/HOI2Chp1.htm (4320 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'''Edwin James Barclay''' (1882-1955) was a Liberia Liberian politician.
		Image:Roosevelt_and_Barclay.gif thumb350px[[Franklin D. Roosevelt and '''Edwin James Barclay''' (driver seat), January 27, 1943]] Edwin Barclay's paternal grandparents moved from Barbados to Liberia with their children in 1865.
		In 1901, at the age of 19, Edwin wrote a Liberian patriotic song, "The Lone Star Forever." Edwin Barclay, a member of the True Whig Party which ruled at that time, served as foreign minister and secretary of state of Liberia in the government of Charles D.B. King from 1920 until 1930.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Edwin_Barclay.html (317 words)

	Edwin Barclay Definition / Edwin Barclay Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edwin James Barclay (1882 Events February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
		March 2 – Robert Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the U.S. Congress March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
		Edwin Barclay's paternal grandparents moved from Barbados to Liberia with their children in 18651865 is a common year starting on Sunday.
	www.elresearch.com /Edwin_Barclay (374 words)

	ia in CW gue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Edwin and his younger brother, Barclay, at last determined to join the young men who were drilling at the Maxson farm and to follow wherever the old liberator should strike the nest blow for emancipation.
		On the 19th Edwin Coppoc, Green and Copeland were taken to Charlestown jail, which was guarded by State militia with two cannon trained on it.
		Coppoc, brother of Edwin and Barclay Coppoc, thought the letter was written by Richard Realf, the poet, who was on one of Brown's associates at Springdale.
	lserver.aea14.k12.ia.us /iacivilwar/Resources/iaincwgue.htm (21724 words)

	John Brown: They Had a Concern
		Barclay gave the "meeting" satisfaction and the complaint was "passed by".
		Edwin Coppoc, the only white man unwounded in the attack, was taken prisoner with John Brown.
		Edwin was almost a relative for my aunt by marriage was his younger half sister.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh20-2.html (6841 words)

	TLP: LinkB
		Roads from Kanweaken to the northwest, Pleebo to the southeast, and to coastal Picinicess and Grand Cess all intersect at Barclayville.
		In June 2005 the UN Integrated Regional Information Regional Network reported that the bridge across the Na river was destroyed during the civil war and that the roads leading to Barclayville had decayed and become overgrown by dense bush rendering them impassable.
		Edwin James Barclay became President of Liberia in 1930 when President King and Vice-President Allen B. Yancey resigned because of a scandal.
	www.members.tripod.com /liberian/linkB.html (2602 words)

	John Brown: The Conspirators Biographies
		Edwin Coppoc, brother of Barclay, was captured with Brown in the engine house, tried immediately after him, sentenced on November 2, and hung with Cook on December 16, 1859.
		In jail he regretted his situation, wrote his mother of his sorrow that he must die a dishonorable death, and explained that he had not understood what the full consequences of the raid would be.
		Barclay Coppoc, Edwin's brother, was born at Salem, Ohio, January 4, 1839, and had not attained his majority at the time of the raid.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /jbrown/men.html (3807 words)

	On Behalf Of The “Book People”
		According to Dr. Guannu, Edwin J. Barclay was perhaps the most gifted and in the opinion of many, the greatest president of the First Republic.
		Well, the simple answer is because Edwin J. Barclay was a patriot and he was determined to have no exploitation of Liberia’s wealth without the benefit of the ordinary Liberians.
		After reading the facts, it should be clear to one and all that Barclay, a degree holder, a book politician, was no failure, and any attempt to classify him as such is slander and slander is a crime under the Liberian Penal Code.
	www.theperspective.org /2004/oct/bookpeople.html (3923 words)

	John BARCLAY c1807-1877 & Janet JOHNSTON c1807-1887, Scotland, Greenvale & Heywood, Victoria, Australia
		John BARCLAY was born in Calton, Barony, Lanarkshire Scotland in 1807, the son of James BARCLAY and Rosanna MURPHY from Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
		John BARCLAY, his wife Janet and six children arrived at Port Phillip in 1841 and in 1846 he occupied a pastoral lease between Heywood and Hotspur which he named 'Greenvale'.
		Robert BARCLAY was killed in sawmill explosion in 1895.
	www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au /digby/family/barclay.htm (253 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Liberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1930, a report by the League of Nations implicated many government officials in the selling of contract labor, leading to the resignation of President Charles D.B. King and a threat by the League of Nations to establish a trusteeship over Liberia unless reforms were carried out.
		King was replaced by Edwin Barclay, who remained President until 1944, when a charismatic politician named William Tubman became president.
		Tubman ruled for seven terms until he died in 1971, permitting no political parties except the True Whigs, but he maintained a reputation for honesty.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Liberia (2719 words)

	Book Reviews and Commentary
		He is a foster son of President Edwin Barclay, brother-in-law of President V. Tubman, and personal friends to various other Liberian presidents such as William R. Tolbert and Samuel Kanyon Doe.
		For example, in discussing various Liberian Presidents whom he described as follows: Arthur Barclay, the humanitarian; Daniel Edward Howard, the Pragmatist; Edwin Barclay, the intellectual; William V. Tubman, the architect; and, William R. Tolbert the dreamer.
		He however counseled that one should "never marry for love." The relevance of this point to Barclay's presidency and the general theme of the book are lost to the readers.
	www.theperspective.org /bookreviews.html (1017 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		President Barclay was accompanied by a contingent of soldiers and hammock bearers and a gramophone on which he played Josephine Baker records.
		But there was a lot of energy, too: [Barclay] was a politician in the Tammany Hall manner.” Liberia’s constitution is modelled on that of the United States, and Greene asked him if he had powers similar to those of an American President.
		Barclay replied with enthusiasm that his authority was greater.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/archive/030728fr_archive01 (6409 words)

	LiberianForum.Com ~ Liberian Information Online
		Arthur Barclay (1854-1938) was the President from 1904 to 1912.
		Edwin Barclay (1882-1955), completed the last term of C.D.B. King became President of Liberia in 1930 and served until 1944.
		The result of the Liberian Government investigation revealed that a "Smith and Wesson".38 caliber, six shooter was used in the assassination attempt; and that one V.S. Onemega, a Nigerian national, was paid by the opposition parties, to kill President Tubman with witchcraft.
	www.liberianforum.com /history.htm (7729 words)

	View of Liberian History and Government
		The picture of President Roosevelt and President Barclay on the soil of Liberia, says much about the special relationship that has existed between the United States and Liberia since African-Americans and Africans recaptured from slave vessels by the American navy were settled in Liberia from 1822 to about 1865.
		It was through the initiatives of leading American political figures of the early nineteenth century, that the Liberian state was formed, and it was through the assistance of American Presidents from James Monroe to Franklin Roosevelt, that the sovereignty of the Liberian state was preserved.
		The standard bearer of the ITWP was a political heavyweight--former President Edwin Barclay.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/liberia/hist_gov1.htm (7318 words)


		One of the reasons for this treatment was because he was perceived by both sides of the national-political spectrum as interfering in the political battles between the Republican Party dominated by the mulattos, and the Whigs, controlled by the dark-skinned Liberians.
		In 1930, the Liberia Government was faced with a major political crisis, when the League of Nations appointed the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia", to investigate allegations of slavery and the forced recruitment of indigenous labor by the Liberian Government officials.
		The standard bearer of the ITWP was a political heavywight--former President Edwin Barclay.
	pages.prodigy.net /jkess3/History.html (10290 words)

	A short history of Liberia
		For 133 years after independence, the Republic of Liberia is ruled by the Americo-Liberians, who establish the True Whig Party (TWP) in 1869.
		He is succeeded in 1904 by Arthur Barclay.
		In 1912 Daniel Edward Howard becomes president, in 1920 Charles Dunbar Burgess King and in 1930 Edwin James Barclay.
	www.electionworld.org /history/liberia.htm (581 words)

	Liberia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		President C. King and his associates resigned, and international control of the republic was proposed.
		Under the leadership of presidents Edwin Barclay (1930–44) and William V. Tubman (1944–71), however, Liberia avoided such control.
		Under Tubman, new policies to open the country to international investment and to allow the indigenous peoples a greater say in Liberian affairs were undertaken.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/Liberia.html (1898 words)

	Kpanneh Doe, "Memoirs of a Liberian Ambassador, George Arthur Padmore:" Book Reviews
		This have also appeared in print little autobiographies and other such writings in which the Liberian story has been gleaned; but, again they are largely statements of kind or another on the country's restricted development.
		He is a foster son of President Edwin Barclay, brother-in-law of President V. Tubman, and personal friends to various other Liberian presidents such as William R.
		The relevance of this point to Barclay's presidency and the general theme of the book are lost to the readers.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/34/077.html (1103 words)

	TLC-Africa - Internet Magazine
		An Airport in Monrovia was named after this president of Liberia.
		Edwin J. Roye was the fifth president of Liberia and chief justice, and speaker of the House, before becoming president in 1871.
		Arthur Barclay was the President from 1904 to 1912.
	www.tlcafrica.com /presidents2.htm (1685 words)

	American Liberia Relations During World War II
		When Edwin J. Barclay, the new President of Liberia, refused to implement measures recommended by the League of Nations (measures that could have compromised the independence of Liberia), the Franklin Roosevelt Administration refused to recognize the new Liberian Government.
		When Lester Walton arrived in Liberia, he helped to push for US recognition of the Barclay Administration.
		A few years later, during World War II, when the strategic importance of Liberia was paramount to the United States, Lester Walton helped Liberia to get the resources needed from the United States Government to construct the Free Port of Monrovia, the first port constructed in Liberia.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/liberia/relations.htm (1839 words)

	Elections in Liberia
		Total Votes N/A [Voter Turnout: N/A] Arthur Barclay of the True Whig Party (TWP) was elected president.
		Total Votes N/A [Voter Turnout: N/A] Arthur Barclay of the True Whig Party (TWP) was re-elected.
		Total Votes N/A [Voter Turnout: N/A] Edwin Barclay of the True Whig Party (TWP) was re-elected unopposed.
	africanelections.tripod.com /lr.html (1229 words)

	The Historical Authenticity of John Brown's Raid in Stephen Vincent Benet's 'John Brown's Body'
		The others of the total of twenty-two men were: Owen Brown, Barclay and Edwin Coppoc, John Edwin Cook, William Thompson, Francis J. Merriam, William Henry Leeman, Steward Taylor, Osbome Perry Anderson, John A. Copeland, Lewis Sherrard Leary, Shields Green, Albert Hazlett, Jerry Anderson and Charles Plummer Tidd.
		The poor fellow, greatly disturbed by the death of his man, Sheppard, crept up on the trestle- work near the station to watch the outlaws who were causing all this violence in the streets of his town.
		Crouching in the protection of the engine-house building, Edwin Coppoc saw a man peering around the corner of the water tank, some thirty yard.
	www.wvculture.org /history/jb2.html (2591 words)

	allAfrica.com: Liberia [editorial]: Do Not Gamble Away Tons of Goodwill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the 1930s under the Administration of President Edwin Barclay, something happened which led to his purge of the Judiciary.
		There was an international conspiracy to discredit the fl man's ability to self govern with credibility; and with that, to discredit also the first fl Republic in Africa.
		President Edwin Barclay and the then Secretary of State Louis Arthur Grimes fought brilliantly at then League of Nations to preserve the nation's integrity and sovereignty.
	allafrica.com /stories/200601120306.html (755 words)

	Sea Breeze Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings
		But he also headed the neocolonialist Monrovia Group, which opposed plans for the economic and political unification of Africa championed by the Casablanca Group of Pan-Africanists.
		Tubman's reputation as a champion of the poor enabled him to rout the opposition in two successive elections, the second one against two combined parties, the Independent True Whigs and the Reformation party, with the equally popular former president Edwin J. Barclay as their standard bearer.
		Following that election in 1955, an attempt was made on Tubman's life at a reception in the Executive Pavilion.
	www.liberiaseabreeze.com /gronah.html (4163 words)

	The Connection.org : Liberia in Focus
		Reports accused then-Liberian president Edwin Barclay of massacring civilians, and Greene, on a break from writing fiction, was there to find facts.
		What he found was a president who thrilled to his own rhetoric and power.
		Almost seven decades later, the new boss of the whole show, Charles Taylor, is at the heart of a civil war that has got many in the international community, and inside West Africa, clamoring for American intervention.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2003/07/20030728_a_main.asp (221 words)

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