About Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi
Lived 1905 – 1962 (aged 56–57). Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi was a Liberian politician.
Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi (19051962) was a Liberian educator and politician from the Vai community.
Early life Massaquoi was born on 13 June 1905 in Cape Mount, Liberia. His father was Momolu Massaquoi (18691938) (also known as Momolu IV), a Liberian king of the Gallinas kingdom prior to its dissolution by the British. He studied at the College of West Africa before his father was assigned as consul general to Germany for 19221930. Massaquoi followed his family to Hamburg, where he lived and studied.
Career Massaquoi studied law, and also worked as an English and mathematics teacher in Sierra Leone. Massaquoi was released in 1944, along with other political prisoners, following the inauguration of President William Tubman, who decried Barclay's "illegal arrest of peaceful citizens without warrant".
Massaquoi served various judgeships from 1945 to 1960, and as secretary of public instruction from 1957 to 1962.
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Liberian politician
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Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi was born on 13 June 1905.
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Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi died in 1962 in Hamburg.
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Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi was a politician.
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Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi was Liberian.
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