What is John Banks Elliott?
[[File:John Banks Elliott at his Centenary party on 12 February 2017.jpg|thumb|John Banks Elliott at his Centenary celebration on 12 February 2017]] '''John Banks Elliott''' (9 February 1917 &ndash; 18 July 2018) was a [[Ghana]]ian diplomat and statesman. He was Ghana's first [[Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary|Ambassador]] to the [[Soviet Union]],<ref> *{{cite news|url=http://www.net-film.ru/en/film-10894/?search=p6%7cv2%7cs1|title=A Chronicle of the day, 1960 № 13|year=1960|work=Newsreel Daily News|access-date=7 May 2014}} *{{cite book|last=Miller|first=John|title=All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evening|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfBI2FD-cMMC&pg=PA40|access-date=7 May 2014|year=2010|publisher=Hodgson Press|isbn=9781906164126|pages=40–}} *{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1507880/the_pittsburgh_courier/ |title=Ghana Ambassador Now in Russia |date=9 April 1960 |work=Pittsburgh Courier |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=7 May 2014 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6VIUebMIT?url=http://www.newspapers.com/clippings/downloadClipping/?id=1507880 |archive-date=3 January 2015 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}} *{{cite book|title=The Current Digest of the Soviet Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yicJAQAAIAAJ|year=1960|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies}}</ref> from 1960 to 1966. He was born in [[Cape Coast]], [[Ghana]]. Elliott died of [[cardiopulmonary arrest]] in [[Accra]] on 18 July 2018 at the age of 101.<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?&pid=189715557 H E John Banks Elliott]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Eliott, John Banks}} [[Category:1917 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Ghanaian diplomats]] [[Category:Ambassadors]] [[Category:Centenarians]]