Daniel Bashiel Warner
{{short description|Former President of Liberia}}
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|image = Daniel_Warner2.jpg
|office = 3rd President of Liberia
|vicepresident = James M. Priest
|term_start = January 4, 1864
|term_end = January 6, 1868
|predecessor = Stephen Allen Benson
|successor = James Spriggs Payne
|office2 = 5th Vice President of Liberia
|term_start2 = January 2, 1860
|term_end2 = January 4, 1864
|president2 = Stephen Allen Benson
|predecessor2 = Beverly Page Yates
|successor2 = James M. Priest
|order3=3rd Secretary of State
|term_start3=1854
|term_end3=1856
|predecessor3=John N. Lewis
|successor3=James Skivring Smith
|president3=Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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|birth_place=Baltimore County, Maryland, United States
|death_date={{death date and age|1880|12|1|1815|4|19}}
|death_place=Liberia
|party=Republican
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Daniel Bashiel Warner (April 19, 1815 – December 1, 1880) served as the third president of Liberia from 1864 to 1868. Prior to this, he served as the third Secretary of State in the cabinet of Joseph Jenkins Roberts from 1854 to 1856 and the fifth vice president of Liberia under President Stephen Allen Benson from 1860 to 1864.
Background
Warner, an African American, was born free on Hookstown Road in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, to a father who was a farmer and ex-slave who acquired his freedom one year before Warner was born.[https://www.nytimes.com/1881/03/13/archives/death-of-a-liberian-expresident.html "Death Of A Liberian President,New York Times, March 13, 1881][http://www.ccharity.com/liberia/oswego1823.htm Roll Of Emigrants That Have Been Sent To The Colony Of Liberia, Western Africa, By The American Colonization Society And Its Auxiliaries, To September 1843] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705224955/http://www.ccharity.com/liberia/oswego1823.htm |date=2008-07-05 }}
Warner's date of birth is unclear. Some records show that he was born on April 19, 1815. American Colonization Society documents list him as age nine when he emigrated from Baltimore to Liberia with eight relatives on the ship Oswego in 1823.
A member of the Americo-Liberian elite, before his presidency, he served as a member of the Liberian House of Representatives, including a term as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1848 to 1849, and in the Liberian Senate.Emma Jones Lapsansky Werner & Margaret Hope Bacon. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9X0rc6E9EGkC&pg=PA151 Back To Africa]{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saY4ubEU20QC|title=The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010: State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature|first=D. Elwood|last=Dunn|date=4 May 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783598441691|via=Google Books}}American Colonization Society, "Information About Going To Liberia With Things Which Every Emigrot Ought To Know", 1852 Following his presidency, in 1877, he became an agent of the American Colonization Society.[https://books.google.com/books?id=1eOCjfc_l5IC&pg=PA29 Michele Mitchell, Righteous Propaganda]
He also wrote the lyrics to the Liberian national anthem, which the country officially adopted upon its independence from the American Colonization Society in 1847.Streissguth, Thomas. [https://books.google.com/books?id=P7fA6zZyHc0C&pg=PA69 Liberia In Pictures]
He died in Monrovia on December 1, 1880. His grave is located in an enclosed plot wedged between Camp Johnson Road and Warren Street in Monrovia.
Presidency (1864–1868)
Warner's main concern as president was his government's relationship with the area's indigenous people, particularly those in the interior of the country. He organized the first settler expedition into the interior in 1868. Led by Benjamin J. K. Anderson, the expedition resulted in the signing of a treaty between the Americo-Liberian government and the community of Moussadou in today's Guinea.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sierra-leone.org/Heroes/heroes2.html|title = Sierra Leone Web - Sierra Leonean Heroes - Early Freetown}} Anderson took careful notes describing the people, the customs, and the natural resources of the areas he passed through, eventually publishing a report on his journey. Using the information from the report, Warner's government moved to assert limited control over the inland region.
Warner retired after his second two-year term ended in 1868.
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Category:19th-century African-American politicians
Category:19th-century Liberian politicians
Category:Americo-Liberian people
Category:Members of the Senate of Liberia
Category:National anthem writers
Category:People from Baltimore County, Maryland
Category:Politicians from Monrovia
Category:Presidents of Liberia
Category:Republican Party (Liberia) politicians
Category:Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia