John Atta Mills
Politician
1944 – 2012
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Who was John Atta Mills?
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician, a lawyer, a legal scholar, a tax expert and a sports administrator who was President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election. He was vice-president from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress. He is the first Ghanaian Head of State to die in office.
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- Born
- Jul 21, 1944
Tarkwa - Also known as
- Asomudwoehene
- Prof
- Uncle Atta
- John Evans Fifii Atta Mills
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Christianity
- Methodism
- Nationality
- Ghana
- Profession
- Education
- Achimota School
( - 1963) - University of Ghana
( - 1967) - London School of Economics and Political Science
- SOAS, University of London
- University of London
- Achimota School
- Lived in
- Osu Castle
- Died
- Jul 24, 2012
Accra
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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