Saki Scheck
{{Short description|Ghanaian politician (1925–2001)}}
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| term_start = 1969
| term_end = 1972
| predecessor = Kwesi Armah
| successor = William N. Gram
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| birth_place = Western Region, Ghana
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| death_place = London, England
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| nationality = Ghanaian
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| occupation = Lawyer
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Saki Scheck (15 October 1925 – 8 September 2001) was a Ghanaian politician and member of the first parliament of the second republic of Ghana representing Takoradi Constituency under the membership of the Progress Party.{{Cite book|title=Ghana Parliamentary Register 1969-70|publisher=Office of the National Assembly, Accra|year=1969|pages=299}}
Early life and education
Scheck was born 15 October 1925 in the Western Region of Ghana. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws from University of Oxford and he also attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.
Career and politics
Scheck worked as a journalist and a private legal practitioner prior to entering parliament. He was a member of the first parliament of the Second Republic of Ghana representing the Takoradi Constituency on the ticket of the Progress Party (PP).{{Cite book|last=Moses|first=Danquah|title=The Birth of the Second Republic|publisher=Editorial and Publishing Services|year=1969|location=Ghana|pages=143}} He was elected during the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election and was sworn into office on 1 October 1969. He remained a member of parliament from 1969 until parliament was suspended following the overthrow of the Busia government on 13 January 1972.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4pNAAAAAIAAJ&q=Busia+government&pg=PA45|title=The Faces of Africa: Diversity and Progress: Repression and Struggle|date=1972|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}
Personal life and death
Scheck was a Christian. He married Laura Amorin at Sekondi, St Paul Catholic Church in 1963. Together they had six children.
Scheck died in London on 8 September 2001, at the age of 75.{{cite web |title=The Martlet, Summer 2018 |url=https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/The-Martlet-Summer-2018.pdf |website=University of Oxford |access-date=11 March 2023}}{{cite web |title=Saki Scheck b. 1925 |url=https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp#Results |website=GRO Index |access-date=11 March 2023}}
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Category:Politicians from Western Region (Ghana)
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni
Category:20th-century Ghanaian lawyers
Category:Ghanaian MPs 1969–1972
Category:Progress Party (Ghana) politicians
Category:Ghanaian expatriates in the United Kingdom
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