Emmanuel Humphrey Tettey Korboe was a

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politician in the first republic. He served as a regional commissioner for the Eastern Region and later for the Central Region. He also served as a member of parliament for the Yilo-Krobo constituency and later the Somanya constituency.

Early life and education

Korboe was born in 1912. He had his early education at Accra Royal School and continued at the O'Reilley Educational Institute.

Career and politics

Korboe begun as a clerk to the Abdala Transport Company in 1932. He later became a farmer and a cocoa broker. He was chairman of the Yilo Krobo Local Council, chairman of the

Somanya Somanya is a town and the capital of Yilo Krobo District, a district in the Eastern Region of south Ghana. Somanya has a 2013 settlement Settlement may refer to: * Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), the ...

branch of the

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UG ...

(CPP) and chairman of the Volta River District CPP Constituency Council. In 1954 he was elected to represent the Yilo Krobo constituency in the National Assembly. He was appointed Regional Commissioner (Regional Minister) for the Eastern Region in 1957. He held this political position from 1957 to 1965. In 1965 he was appointed Regional Commissioner for the Central Region. He served in this capacity until February 1966 when the

Nkrumah government Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial ...

was overthrown.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Korboe, Emmanuel Humphrey Tettey 1912 births Year of death missing Date of death unknown Ghanaian MPs 1954–1956 Ghanaian MPs 1956–1965 Ghanaian MPs 1965–1966 Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians 20th-century Ghanaian politicians