Anthony W. Gardiner

Anthony William Gardiner ( born February 3, 1820 Virginia, † February 12, 1885 ) was from 1878 to 1883 president of Liberia.

Political career

Gardiner was born in the U.S. state of Virginia and grew up in Southampton. In 1831 his family emigrated with the help of the American Colonization Society from in the few years earlier, founded Liberia. Gardiner received a legal education, and 1847 was a delegate of the Convention which drafted the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia. He became the first Minister of Justice ( Attorney general) of the country and belonged from 1855 to 1871 the Parliament to.

In 1871 he was confirmed after the fall of President Edward J. Roye Vice President and twice in office. During the tenure inability of the diseased President Joseph J. Roberts, he held in 1875 and 1876, de facto president of.

President

Two years after his retirement from office he won the presidential election and took effect on January 7, 1878 at his office. At the same time won his party, the True Whig Party, an overwhelming victory. Gardiner was the third President, that set the party, and to the overthrow and assassination of William Tolbert In 1980, the party henceforth all presidents. Gardiner was re-elected twice for two years each. He sat down for an expansion of trade and investment by foreign companies, a, to an improvement of the education system. He also sought a better relationship with the tribes in the hinterland who had little contact with the Liberian government.

Was overshadowed his term of the expansion of the colonial possessions of European powers during the "rush " for Africa that began intensified in the early 1880s. The Gallinas territory between the rivers Sewa and Mano was claimed by Great Britain. In addition, Liberia was faced in Gardiner's tenure with gunboat diplomacy on the part of the British and the German Empire. The British verdeutlichten with the deployment of a fleet against Monrovia their territorial claims and a German battleship forced with the cannonade of the town and its appearance in Monrovia restitution of the Liberian government for the pillage of a stranded German ship at one inhabited by the Kru Coast section. The helpless and ill president resigned and handed over the office on January 20, 1883 his vice president Alfred F. Russell. Two months later the controversial Gallinas territory was formally annexed by the British and their colony Sierra Leone slammed

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