John Banks Elliott
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.
John Banks Elliott at his Centenary celebration on 12 February 2017
Elliott died of cardiopulmonary arrest in Accra on 18 July 2018 at the age of 101.[2]
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- "A Chronicle of the day, 1960 № 13". Newsreel Daily News. 1960. 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. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2014 – via Newspapers.com.
- The Current Digest of the Soviet Press. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. 1960.
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