John Evans Atta Mills
sixth President of the Republic of Ghana (1944-2012)
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John Evans Atta Mills was the sixth President of Ghana, serving from 2009 until his death in 2012. He is historically significant as a leader of one of West Africa's most stable democracies during a period of economic growth and political development in Ghana.
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- 1944-07-21
- Died
- 2012-07-24
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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. He was previously the third vice president from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he contested unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He was the first Ghanaian head of state to die in office.
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