Robert Mensah Abbey | |
Constituency Mp: | Okaikwei |
Parliament: | Ghana |
Predecessor: | New |
Successor: | Carl Daniel Reindorf |
Term Start: | 1965 |
Term End: | 1966 |
Constituency Mp1: | Accra West[1] |
Parliament1: | Ghana |
Successor1: | Constituency abolished |
Term Start1: | 1956 |
Term End1: | 1965 |
Birth Name: | Robert Mensah Abbey |
Party: | Convention People's Party |
Profession: | Politician, boxer |
Robert Mensah Abbey was a Ghanaian boxer and politician. Before politics, Abbey was a professional boxer and later clerk who worked in Accra.[2] [3] Abbey was nominated by the Convention People's Party to contest for the Accra West seat in the 1956 Gold Coast legislative election in place of Thomas Hutton-Mills who had been appointed deputy commissioner of the Gold Coast.[4] [3] He won the seat and served as a member of parliament for Accra West from 1956 to 1965.[5] [6] [7] [8] In 1965 he became the member of parliament representing the Okaikwei electoral district.[9] Abbey was the father of J. L. S. Abbey the former Ghanaian public servant and ambassador.[2]