Anthony W. Gardiner
President of Liberia 1878 - 1883

Published:  14 September, 2005

Anthony William Gardiner (1820-1885) was born in Virginia, U.S.A. He came with his parents to Liberia where they arrived in January 1831. Little is known of his childhood years in Southampton, Virginia, or in the Liberia Colony of the American Colonization Society that had paid for his trip to Africa aboard the brig Volador.

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