Arthur Barclay

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Arthur Barclay (1854–1938) was a Liberian politician.

Barclay was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and was educated in Liberia.

He was the 14th President of Liberia, serving from November 4 1904 until January 1 1912, representing the True Whig Party. He had previously served as Secretary of the Treasury under his predecessor, Garretson W. Gibson.

In the late 1920s, he was a member of a League of Nations commission into the recruitment and selling of contract labour as slaves. The scandal, wich caused much of the government to resign, ended with Arthur Barclay's nephew, secretary of state Edwin Barclay becoming president of Liberia.

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Preceded by:
Garretson W. Gibson 		President of Liberia
1904–1912 		Succeeded by:
Daniel E. Howard
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