Joseph Kodzo
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Joseph Kodzo | |
|---|---|
| Regional Commissioner for the Volta Region | |
| In office June 1965 – February 1966 | |
| President | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | Hans Kofi Boni |
| Succeeded by | E. Q. Q. Sanniez |
| Minister for Health | |
| In office December 1964 – June 1965 | |
| President | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Preceded by | Lawrence Rosario Abavana |
| Succeeded by | Osei Owusu Afriyie |
| Member of Parliament for Krachi | |
| In office 1965 – February 1966 | |
| Preceded by | New |
| Succeeded by | Benard Kwaku Mensah |
| Member of Parliament for Akan-Krachi | |
| In office 1954–1965 | |
| Preceded by | New |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Member of Parliament for Buem-Krachi | |
| In office 1951–1954 | |
| Preceded by | New |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joseph Kodzo 1916 Kete-Krachi, Volta Region |
| Citizenship | Ghanaian |
| Alma mater | St. Augustine's College |
Joseph Kodzo was a Ghanaian educationist and politician. He was a Minister of state and a member of parliament during the first republic. He served as the Minister for Health from 1964 to 1965 and the Regional Commissioner (now Regional Minister) for the Volta Region from 1965. He was also the member of parliament for the Buem-Krachi constituency from 1951 to 1954, the member of parliament for the Akan-Krachi constituency from 1954 to 1965 and the member of parliament for the Krachi constituency from 1965 to 1966.
Kodzo was born in 1916 at Kete-Krachi, a town then Volta Region of Ghana (now in Oti Region), to Kodzo Emfrinne and Afua Kra. His early education begun at the Kete-Krachi Roman Catholic Primary School and the Roman Catholic Middle School in Kpando from 1925 to 1934.[1] He continued at the St. Augustine's Training College (now St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast) in 1935 to train as a teacher. There he obtained his Teachers' Certificate 'A' in 1938.[2]