John Banks Elliott

John Banks Elliott at his Centenary celebration on 12 February 2017

John Banks Elliott (9 February 1917 – 18 July 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman. He was Ghana's first Ambassador to the Soviet Union,[1] from 1960 to 1966. He was born in Cape Coast, Ghana.

Elliott died of cardiopulmonary arrest in Accra on 18 July 2018 at the age of 101.[2]

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References

    • "A Chronicle of the day, 1960 № 13". Newsreel Daily News. 1960. http://www.net-film.ru/en/film-10894/?search=p6%7cv2%7cs1. Retrieved 7 May 2014. 
    • Miller, John (2010). All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening. Hodgson Press. pp. 40–. ISBN 9781906164126. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
    • "Ghana Ambassador Now in Russia". Pittsburgh Courier. 9 April 1960. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1507880/the_pittsburgh_courier/. Retrieved 7 May 2014.   
    • The Current Digest of the Soviet Press. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1960.
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