George Arthur Padmore (July 16, 1915 – April 15, 2005) was a Liberian diplomat. From 1956 to 1961 he was Liberian Ambassador to the United States.
Padmore was born on July 16, 1915, [1] the grandson of General George Stanley Padmore, [2] and the son of James Stanley Padmore and Mary Louise Barclay-Padmore, who had emigrated to Liberia from Barbados. His older sister was Antoinette Tubman. After Padmore's parents died in a canoeing accident on the Saint Paul River, [3] he became the adopted son of the politician Edwin Barclay and his wife Euphemia.
In April 1939 Padmore married Edith Mai Wiles, [1] who would later serve as Liberia's first woman cabinet minister. [4] The couple had five children. [5]
Padmore died at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland on April 15, 2005. [6]