View the profiles of people named John Atta Mills. John Evans Atta Mills H. E. Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the President of the Republic of Ghana was born at Tarkwa on July 21st, 1944.
BAMAKO, Mali — John Atta Mills, the president of Ghana, died on Tuesday at a military hospital in the capital, Accra, five months short of finishing his first term in office. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! He hails from Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region. He was able to diffuse Socrates assertion that no one goes into politics and regain in his integrity.
Mr. Mills was succeeded by the country’s vice president, John Dramani Mahama, who was immediately sworn in, a further indication of the solidity of the nation’s institutions. Atta Mills is survived by his wife, Ernestina Naadu Mills, and their son, Sam.Pius Utomi Ekpei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “The Prof,” as Mr. Atta Mills was known, taught law for 25 years.
Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.After secondary school, Mills studied law at the University of Ghana (LL.B., 1967), the During his first two presidential campaigns, Mills had been roundly criticized for statements that if elected he would consult with Rawlings.
Join Facebook to connect with John Atta Mills and others you may know. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. He lost elections in 2000 and 2004 before winning in 2008.“He’s been a calming and stabilizing influence,” Mr. Alence said.Mr. After his inauguration he set about to improve the socioeconomic situation of ordinary Ghanaians, who ranked among the world’s poorest people, with an average daily income of $2.32, a 60 percent literacy rate, and 10 percent unemployment despite the country’s potentially valuable natural resources.
Mr. Rawlings, a populist military officer who seized power in coups in 1979 and 1981 and won election in 1992, chose Mr. Atta Mills as his vice president in 1997. Many were those who felt that the president could have lived longer to avoid this gargantuan unprecedented mishap. He was also a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Mr. Atta Mills wrote extensively on taxation, and later was Ghana’s commissioner of internal revenue.
But it was the nation’s political stability that helped win a prize making Ghana the envy of its neighbors: being the site of the first visit by President Obama to sub-Saharan Africa, in 2009. He earned a law degree from the University of Ghana in 1967 and a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He also instituted policies to eliminate four cabinet ministries and reduced the size of the presidential convoy.
John Evans Atta Mills, (born July 21, 1944, Tarkwa, Ghana—died July 24, 2012, Accra, Ghana), Ghanaian politician and scholar who served as president of Ghana (2009–12).
Mr. Atta Mills was planning to seek re-election in December. A laid-back former law professor, he became the protégé of Jerry Rawlings, a fiery political figure who was his opposite. In his first State of the Nation address on February 19, 2009, Mills announced an austerity program, promising steep cuts in government spending, beginning with cutbacks in wages and a review of the government’s recent order of two presidential jets. News of his death came on state-run television.
When Mills was again the NDC candidate for the presidency in 2008, he distanced himself from his former mentor and campaigned on the slogan “I believe in Ghana.” Self-described as a social democrat who believed in the concept of social welfare espoused by On January 7, 2009, Mills was officially sworn in as president of Ghana. John Atta-Mills: the spirit of democracy. LaRay Denzer is a visiting scholar in the program of African Studies at Northwestern University.
He was 68.
“His historical significance is in the consolidation of democracy in Ghana,” said Rod Alence, a Ghana expert at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
“There’s a constitutional system in place,” Mr. Alence said. The passing away of President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday 24th July, 2012 devastated the hearts of many Ghanaians in the country and beyond. Professor John Atta Mills: His Life & Works: Junior Secondary School Edition: Okyere Bonna: 9781496125217: Books - Amazon.ca Mr. Atta Mills presided over Ghana’s continuing and, for the region, unusual experiment in stable democracy.
He was elected with a margin of less than 1 percent at the end of 2008.That the narrowness of the victory did not set off an explosion of violence, as had occurred after elections in Ivory Coast and Kenya, was widely viewed as evidence of the maturity of democracy in Ghana, which in 1957 became the first African nation to declare independence. July 24, 2012 BAMAKO, Mali — John Atta Mills, the president of Ghana, died on Tuesday at a military hospital in the capital, Accra, five months short of finishing his first term in office. “To have someone like Mills, who was never known as being charismatic, was crucial in setting up Ghana in a two-party system.”In Mr. Atta Mills’s time in office, Ghana became a significant oil exporter.
Professor John Atta Mills: His Life & Works (Vocabulary Word Study Book 1) eBook: Okyere Bonna: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store The government gave no cause of death, but Mr. Atta Mills had recently returned from eight days of medical treatment in the United States.
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