Joseph Richard Asiedu Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
Office:3rd Speaker of the
Parliament of Ghana
Term Start:July 1960 Deputy Speaker 1957. Speaker 1961
Term End:June 1965
Predecessor:Augustus Molade Akiwumi
Successor:Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta
Constituency:MP Akuapem North 1956
Birth Date:3 January 1903
Birth Place:Larteh Akuapem
Death Date:14 November 1977
Death Place:Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
Party:CPP NO Party Posts, Member of Legislative Council
Residence:ANSVILLE LARTEH
Occupation:Regional Manager U.A.C.Ltd. Timber Contractor
Religion:Basel Mission . Later Apostolic Church Ghana.
Footnotes:Helped with the establishment of Tetteh Quarshie Hospital at Akuapem Mampong to the memory of Tetteh Quarshie the man who first introduced Cocoa to Ghana

Justice Joseph Richard Asiedu (died before 1994)[1] was a judge and also a Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana. He was appointed Speaker of Parliament in July 1960 in the First Republic of Ghana.[2] He was the speaker until June 1965.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Adjei, Mike. Death and Pain, Rawlings' Ghana: The Inside Story. Black Line. 15 February 1994. 29. 185421036X.
  2. Web site: Rt. Hon. Ebenezer Sekyi Hughes:Speakers of Parliament from 1951 - 2005 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045829/http://www.parliament.gh/leadershipdetails.php?id=0003 . 2007-09-27 . 2007-04-18 . Parliament of Ghana.