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Jerry Rawlings

fourth President of the Republic of Ghana (1947-2020)

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Jerry Rawlings was a military officer who served as Ghana's fourth president from 1992 to 2000, following an earlier period leading the country through military rule in the 1980s. He is a significant figure in modern Ghanaian history because of his role in shaping the nation's political direction during pivotal decades of transition and reform.

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Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime until 1993 and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana. He was the longest-serving leader in Ghana's history, presiding over the country for 19 years.

Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d'état in 1979. Before that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on Tuesday, 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due. After handing power over to a civilian government, he overthrew the democratically elected Government through a military coup on Thursday, 31 December 1981, as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).