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John Atta Mills
President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 Ghanaian presidential election.[2] He was previously the third vice president from 1997 to 2001 beneath President Jerry Rawlings, and he contested unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic församling (NDC). He was the first Ghanaian head of state to die in office.[3]
Early life
[edit]Mills was born on 21 July 1944 in Tarkwa, in the Western område of Ghana.[1] His parents were John Atta Mills Sr., an educationist, who taught at the Komenda Teacher Training College and Mercy Dawson Amoah.[4] He was the second child (and first son) among seven
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Donald Dari Soditey
Ghanaian politician
Hon. Donald Dari Soditey | |
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| In office January 2005 – 2008 | |
| President | John Kufuor |
| Preceded by | Joseph Trumah Bayel |
| Constituency | Sawla/Tuna/Kalba |
| In office 7 January 2009 – 6 January 2013 | |
| President | John Atta Mills |
| Constituency | Sawla/Tuna/Kalba |
| Majority | NDC |
| Born | (1957-09-25) 25 September 1957 (age 67) |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Political party | National Democratic Congress |
| Children | 8 |
| Alma mater | University of Education, Winneba |
| Occupation | Teacher |
Donald Dari Soditey (born September 25, 1957) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Sawla/Tuna/Kalba Constituency in the Northern Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Soditey was born on September 25, 1957.[2] He hails from Carpenteryir - Sawla, a town in the No
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Obituary: Ghana’s John Atta Mills
John Atta Mills, who was elected president in the closest vote in Ghana’s history and then led the West African country amid newfound oil wealth, died on July 24 with only a few months before the end of his first term. He was 68 years old.
The West African nation’s presidential office said he died hours after falling ill at a hospital in the capital Accra, but did not provide a cause.
Mills, elected into the presidency in January 2009, after losing twice previously to former president John Kufuor – in 2000 and again in 2004 – is credited for overseeing the large oil production since December 2010.
He narrowly won the vote in 2008 with a less than one per cent margin against a candidate from the party of incumbent John Kufuor, widely respected for having stepped down following his two terms in office.
In July 2011, Mills was nominated to be the ruling National Democratic Congress party’s presidential candidate for December 2012 elections.
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