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Nicholas Anane-Agyei

Ghanaian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ76882572 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nicholas Anane-Agyei was a Ghanaian politician in the first republic. He was the Regional Commissioner for the Brong Ahafo Region and the member of parliament for the Dormaa-droboo constituency from 1965 to 1966. Prior to entering parliament, he was the district commissioner for Sunyani.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922-07-01. For this dossier, Nicholas, Anane-Agyei and Ghanaian is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q76882572. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nicholas Anane-Agyei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.