Edward Nathaniel Moore was a Ghanaian lawyer and the commissioner for justice and

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during the era of the

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and Supreme Military Council military regimes.

Early life and education

Moore was born on 26 September 1926 at

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in the Central Region. He was the son of George Nathaniel Moore and the grandson of Hon. George Edward Moore, a member of the then Gold Coast Legislative Council. Moore's early education begun in 1935 at E.C.M. School,

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. He continued at Oguaa School,

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in 1938, completing his primary education in 1939. In 1940 he enrolled at Adisadel College,

where he had his secondary education, completed in 1945. In 1952 he proceeded to the

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to study law at the

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where he obtained the LL.B (Hons) degree in 1956. He was called to the bar at the

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, UK, that same year.

Career

He began teaching after his secondary education in 1946 at Methodist School,

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until 1947. Later that year he gained employment as a civil servant at Posts and Telecommunications Department, he worked in that department until 1951. After his tertiary education in

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he returned to Ghana and joined the

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that same year. In 1957 he began a private legal practice as a Barrister-at-Law Solicitor and Advocate. He worked in that capacity until 1967 when he was appointed chairman of the New Times Limited, which he chaired until 1970. In 1968 he was appointed director of the

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. The following year he was appointed Chairman of the Moore Commission, which was set up to investigated the affairs of the cooperatives during Dr. Busia's tenure as head of government. In 1970 he was the sole arbitrator of the dispute between employees of Barclays Bank and Standard Bank. He was treasurer of the

from 1963 to 1965, and served as its president from 1971 to 1972. He was appointed Commissioner of Justice and attorney general of Ghana on 13 January 1972. He was relieved of his duties as attorney general on 8 October 1975.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Edward Nathaniel 1926 births Possibly living people 20th-century Ghanaian lawyers Alumni of Adisadel College Alumni of the University of Hull Attorneys General of Ghana