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Daniel Edward Howard | |
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| 16th President of Liberia | |
| In office 1 January 1912 – 5 January 1920 | |
| Vice President | Samuel George Harmon |
| Preceded by | Arthur Barclay |
| Succeeded by | Charles D.B. King |
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| Born | 4 August 1861 Buchanan, Liberia |
| Died | 9 July 1935 (aged 73) Monrovia, Liberia |
| Political party | True Whig |
Daniel Edward Howard (4 August 1861 – 9 July 1935) was the 16th president of Liberia, serving from 1912 to 1920.
Howard was elected president in 1911 and assumed office on 1 January 1912. With the outbreak of World War I, he attempted to maintain the country's neutrality, though he tended to support the Allies, whose colonial territories in Africa surrounded Liberia. Despite German protests, he allowed the French to operate a wireless station in the capital, Monrovia. Realizing that their complaints were in vain, the Germans sent a submarine to attack the city in 1917, forcing the reluctant Howard to side with the Allies and declare war on Germany.
Howard remained in office for two years after the war's end. He died in Monrovia in 1935.