John Evans Atta Mills
Sixth President of the Republic of Ghana (1944-2012) · Ghana · On the map · Politicians · Died at 68
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.
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President Mills featured on a billboard with Former US President Barack Obama
President Mills on a meeting with the Minister of Development of Brazil, Miguel Jorge
Obama & Atta Mills, 2009
First Lady Ernestina Mills, wife of John Atta Mills, with Michelle Obama in 2012
Atta Mills' gravestone at the Asomdwee Park, Accra in 2023
Bust of Atta Mills at the John Evans Atta Mills Centre for Law and Governance, GIMPA, AccraAwards
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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, and to date, the only Ghanaian head of state to die in office.
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