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Tabitha Sybil Quaye

Ghanaian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ16734139
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Tabitha Sybil Quaye (born 20 September 1938) is a Ghanaian politician and a former member of parliament for Takoradi in the Western region. She was a member of the first parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana.

Early life and education

Tabitha Sybil Quaye was born in 1938 in the Western Region of Ghana. She has a Diploma in Catering from the Hotel and Catering Institute.

Career

She is a former member of parliament for Takoradi from January 1992 to January 1997 and also a Hotelier and a Caterer.

Politics

Tabitha Sybil Quaye was elected during the 1992 Ghanaian parliamentary election as member of the first parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. She succeeded William N. Gram of the Action Congress Party (ACP) who represented the constituency in 1979 Ghanaian parliamentary election. She was succeeded by Gladys Asmah member of New Patriotic Party during the 1996 Ghanaian general election who won the seat by polling 26,431 votes which represented 73.50% of the share. She defeated Esther Nkansah a National Democratic Congress (NDC) member who polled 10,342 votes which represented 23.00% of the share, Alex Fosu Blankson an Independent who polled 1,323 votes which represented 2.90% of the share, Timothy Norbert Kublenu of National Convention Party(NCP) who also polled 792 votes which represented 1.80% and Crosby Mochia of Convention People's Party (CPP) who had no vote.

Personal life

She is a Christian.

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“Tabitha Sybil Quaye” enters the record as ghanaian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tabitha, Sybil and Quaye can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1938, 1992, 1997, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-09-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tabitha, Sybil and Quaye.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16734139. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1992, 1997 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from Tabitha Sybil Quaye” 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.