Thomas Hutton-Mills (14 November 1894,

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Michael R. Doortmont, ''The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony'', Brill, 2005, p. 266 – 11 May 1959,

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) was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the Gold Coast and subsequently

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Biography

Thomas Hutton-Mills was the son of

Thomas Hutton-Mills Sr. Thomas Hutton-Mills, born Thomas Hutton Mills (13 June 1865 – 4 March 1931) was a lawyer and nationalist leader in the Gold Coast. He is often referred to as Thomas Hutton-Mills Sr. to distinguish him from his son, the lawyer and diplomat Thoma ...

, a prominent lawyer and politician in the Gold Coast. He was educated at

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and

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. Called to the Bar from the

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in 1921, he practised law in the Gold Coast. Hutton-Mills became a member of the

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(C.P.P) in August 1949. In September 1949 he was appointed chairman of the C.P.P advisory board. Other prominent members of the advisory board included

Bankole Awoonor-Renner Kweku Bankole Awoonor-Renner (6 June 1898 – 27 May 1970) was a Ghanaian politician, journalist, anti-colonialist and Pan-Africanist. In 1921 Awoonor-Renner travelled to the United States (US) to study journalism at the Carnegie Institute of Te ...

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, H.S.T. Provencal and

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The advisory board also included two women, Sophia Doku and Miss Clarke. Hutton Mills was imprisoned with other party leaders in 1950 for his part in the boycotts and strikes of that year."MR. T. HUTTON-MILLS", ''

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'', 12 May 1959. Elected as a member for

to the Legislative Assembly in the 1951 elections, Hutton-Mills became Minister for Commerce Industry and Mines, and then Minister of Health and Labour. In 1954 he was dropped from the Cabinet, and replaced by Imoru Egala.Daniel Miles McFarland, ''Historical Dictionary of Ghana'',

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, 1995, p. 98. Becoming a diplomat, Hutton-Mills was a Deputy Commissioner in London for several years before being appointed Ghana's Ambassador to

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. On his death at a London hospital in 1959, he was 63 years old. Hutton-Mills was a distant cousin of the late Ghanaian president

John Atta Mills 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 govern ...

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1894 births 1959 deaths 20th-century Ghanaian lawyers Alumni of the University of Cambridge Ambassadors of Ghana to Liberia Bruce family (Ghana) Ga-Adangbe people Ghanaian MPs 1951–1954 Ghanaian people of Scottish descent Government ministers of Ghana {{Ghana-diplomat-stub