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John Evans Atta Mills
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills 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. He was previously the third vice president from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he contest…
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politics · President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012 · politician · university teacher · lawyer · economist · minister · head of state · also John Evans Atta Mills, John Atta Mills, John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, Asomdwehene, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Professor JEA Mills
Born 21 July 1944 · Died 24 July 2012 · Q51008
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2015· 2 entries
The Ghanaian government named a newly commissioned community day secondary school after Atta Mills in his hometown, Otuam The Judicial Council of Ghana renamed its largest court complex after Atta Mills in acknowledgemen
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A newly constructed community day senior high school at Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region, was named in honour of Mills in recognition of "his passion in promoting education"
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2014· 1 entry
The Ghanaian government named the country's second floating production storage and offloading vessel, FPSO John Atta Mills - as president, he superintended over the first production of Ghana's new-found oil in commercial
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2012· 1 entry
Died 2012-07-24.
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2011· 2 entries
Ghana was the fastest growing economy in the world at 20
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The Ghana Heritage Fund - a sovereign wealth fund generated from petroleum revenue accumulated from the country's oil and gas industry
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2009· 2 entries
The Journal of International Affairs at Columbia University featured Mills as one of the "Five Faces of African Innovation and Entrepreneurship" along with South African innovator, Euvin Naidoo and Mo Ibrahim, (founder o
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Career landmark: President of Ghana (2009–2012).
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2008· 2 entries
Just before he was elected as the President of Ghana
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Mills made refurbishing the Kotokoraba Market in Cape Coast a major feature of his presidential campaign
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2002· 1 entry
Was a visiting scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia through a joint Canadian International Development Agency(CIDA) – International Develo
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2000· 1 entry
Mills became the NDC's candidate for the 2000 presidential election after Rawlings had served his constitutionally mandated terms as president
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: Vice President of the Republic of Ghana (1997–2001).
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1992· 1 entry
The National Convention Party (NCP) had formed an alliance with the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
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1988· 1 entry
Became the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service of Ghana and was named national tax commissioner in September 1993
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1971· 1 entry
Was selected for the Fulbright Scholar programme at Stanford Law School in the US
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1968· 1 entry
And earned a PhD in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies School of Law, part of the federal University of London, after completing his doctoral thesis in the field of taxation and economic development in 197
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1961· 1 entry
And 1963 respectively, and the University of Ghana, Legon, where he completed a bachelor of law degree, LLB and a professional law certificate in 1967
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-07-21.
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