John Evans Fifii Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician who was President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was
 
 
inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election. He was
 
 
Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential
 
 
elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He died on 24 July 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
 
 
He is the first Ghanaian head of state to die in office. 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. Mr. Atta Mills was planning to seek
 
 
re-election in December. “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. “To have someone like Mills, who
 
 
was never known as being charismatic, was crucial
 
 
in setting up Ghana in a
 
 
two-party system.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atta_Mills http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/world/africa/john-atta-mills-ghanas-president-dies-68.html?_r=1
 

Atta Mills
1944  2012
date of birth: 7.21.1944
date of death: 7.24.2012
Place of birth: Ghana
Occupation: Mr President

John Evans Fifii Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician who was President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election. He was Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 …

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