Edward Akufo-Addo
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Edward Akufo-Addo
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| 2nd President of Ghana (5th Head of State of Ghana) (Second Republic) |
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In office 31 August 1970 – 13 January 1972 |
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| Prime Minister | Kofi Busia (1969–1972) |
| Preceded by | Nii Amaa Ollennu |
| Succeeded by | Gen. I.K. Acheampong |
| 3rd Chief Justice of Ghana (15th including Gold Coast) |
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In office 1966–1970 |
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| Preceded by | J. Sarkodee-Addo |
| Succeeded by | Edmund A.L. Bannerman |
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26 June 1906 Akropong-Akuapem, Gold Coast |
| Died | 17 July 1979 (aged 73) Accra, Ghana |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Political party | non-partisan |
| Spouse(s) | Adeline Y. Akufo-Addo (née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta) (d.2004) |
| Children | Nana Akufo-Addo |
| Profession | Judge, Lawyer |
| Religion | Christian |
| Ceremonial President with executive powers vested in Prime Minister | |
Edward Akufo-Addo (26 June 1906 – 17 July 1979) was a Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the "Big Six" leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), which engaged in the fight for Ghana's independence. He became the Chief Justice and later President of the Republic of Ghana.
Akufo-Addo was born at Dodowa. He had his basic education at Presbyterian Primary and Middle Schools at Akropong. In 1929, he entered Achimota College, where he won a scholarship to St Peter's College, Oxford, where he studied Mathematics, Politics and Philosophy.
Akufo-Addo was called to the Middle Temple Bar, London, UK, in 1940 and returned to what was then the Gold Coast to start a private legal practice a year later.
In 1947, he became a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and was one of the "Big Six" (the others being Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Joseph Boakye Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey and William Ofori Atta) detained after disturbances in Accra in 1948. From 1949 to 1950, he was a member of the Gold Coast Legislative Council and the Coussey Constitutional Commission.
After independence (1962–64), Akufo-Addo was a Supreme Court Judge (One of three Judges who sat on Treason trial involving Tawia Adamafio, Ako Adjei and three others after the Kulungugu bomb attack on President Kwame Nkrumah and for doing so was dismissed with fellow judges for finding some of the accused not guilty.
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