Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph

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Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph (born September 6, 1914 in Accra ; † July 25, 1986 there ) was a leading lawyer and politician in the West African state of Ghana . Griffiths-Randolph held his most important political position as the sixth Speaker of Parliament in the Third Republic of Ghana between September 24, 1979 and December 31, 1981, until the military coup under Jerry Rawlings .

family

Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph became the father-in-law of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo , a former Foreign Minister of Ghana, when his daughter Rebecca married in the mid-1990s .