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John Atta Mills

1944 - 2012

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Atta Mills is the 4,489th most popular politician (up from 9,701st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ghana (up from 10th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ghanaian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Atta Mills ranks 4,489 out of 19,576. Before him are Publius Licinius Crassus, Ugyen Wangchuck, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Švitrigaila, and Baruch ben Neriah. After him are John Balliol, Quintus Servilius Caepio, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Said bin Taimur, Sima Shi, and Arses of Persia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, John Atta Mills ranks 109. Before him are Jeroen Krabbé, Ian McDiarmid, Donna Haraway, Hugo Gatti, Andris Bērziņš, and Kim Yong-il. After him are Roger Scruton, Masanobu Izumi, Karl Jenkins, Gianni Morandi, Nana Akufo-Addo, and Tahar Ben Jelloun. Among people deceased in 2012, John Atta Mills ranks 67. Before him are Carl Johan Bernadotte, Carl Woese, George Armitage Miller, Tony Martin, Gustav Leonhardt, and Dave Brubeck. After him are J. Christopher Stevens, Harry Carey Jr., Bingu wa Mutharika, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Teófilo Stevenson, and Eduard Khil.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, John Atta Mills ranks 5 out of 162. Before him are Kofi Annan (1938), Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Peter Turkson (1948), and John Mahama (1958). After him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Marcel Desailly (1968), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Abedi Pele (1964), John Kufuor (1938), Jerry Rawlings (1947), and Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, John Atta Mills ranks 3. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), and John Mahama (1958). After him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), John Kufuor (1938), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Clement Quartey (1938), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Hilla Limann (1934), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), and Fred Akuffo (1937).

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