{"id":"john-atta-mills","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-atta-mills","language":"en","name":"John Atta Mills","name_en":"John Atta Mills","name_ne":null,"description":"Sixth President of the Republic of Ghana (1944–2012)","headline":"Sixth President of the Republic of Ghana (1944–2012)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"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. 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.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"21 July 1944","date":"1944-07-21"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tarkwa","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q995439"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"24 July 2012","date":"2012-07-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Accra","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3761"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Ghana","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"lawyer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40348"},{"text":"economist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188094"},{"text":"minister","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83307"},{"text":"head of state","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48352"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"National Democratic Congress","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200875"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Ghana","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303765"},{"text":"Achimota School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4673779"},{"text":"SOAS, University of London","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220144"},{"text":"London School of Economics and Political Science","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174570"},{"text":"Huni Valley Senior High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19977567"},{"text":"Komenda College of Education","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46996974"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Ernestina Naadu Mills","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19957726"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"President of Ghana (7 January 2009 – 24 July 2012)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2672728","start":"2009-01-07","end":"2012-07-24"},{"text":"Vice President of the Republic of Ghana (7 January 1997 – 7 January 2001)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16151167","start":"1997-01-07","end":"2001-01-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Fulbright Scholarship","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253936"},{"text":"Order of the Star of Ghana","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399663"},{"text":"Order of the Volta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1417302"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atta_Mills","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008"],"faq":[{"q":"When was John Atta Mills born?","a":"John Atta Mills was born on 21 July 1944 in Tarkwa."},{"q":"What positions has John Atta Mills held?","a":"Positions held by John Atta Mills include: President of Ghana (2009–2012); Vice President of the Republic of Ghana (1997–2001)."},{"q":"Where did John Atta Mills study?","a":"John Atta Mills was educated at University of Ghana, Achimota School, SOAS, University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science."}],"related":[{"name":"Kwame Nkrumah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kwame-nkrumah"},{"name":"John Mahama","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-mahama"},{"name":"Hilla Limann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hilla-limann"},{"name":"Edward Akufo-Addo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/edward-akufo-addo"},{"name":"Jerry Rawlings","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jerry-rawlings"},{"name":"Charles Arden-Clarke","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/charles-arden-clarke"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/john-atta-mills-7d62d8eaca.jpg","width":223,"height":224,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"National Democratic Congress party of Ghana","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Atta-Mills_election_poster.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): John Atta Mills","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atta_Mills","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q51008","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51008","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: John Atta-Mills election poster.jpg by National Democratic Congress party of Ghana (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Atta-Mills_election_poster.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article John Atta Mills, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: John Atta-Mills election poster.jpg — National Democratic Congress party of Ghana, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"John Atta Mills\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/john-atta-mills. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T08:07:14Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-atta-mills","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-atta-mills","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-atta-mills?lang=ne"}}