Public Officeholders

Name: Ghana Public Officeholders
Creator: Wikidata
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Holders of Ghanaian public office — presidents, ministers, members of parliament, justices and regional officials — one row per term, with party and the years the term ran. Sourced from Wikidata, CC0. 2920 records.

v1.0last updated Sep 18, 2026 · snapshotlisting updated Sep 18, 2026GH₵19.002,920 recordsGovernance

Fields

Every column this dataset returns, with its type. This is the shape of the API response.

Field	Type
name	TEXT NOT NULL
office	TEXT
party	TEXT
start_year	INTEGER
end_year	INTEGER
birth_year	INTEGER
description	TEXT
wikidata_id	TEXT
source	TEXT

Preview

five records, free

First 5 rows of Public Officeholders
nameTEXT NOT NULL	officeTEXT	partyTEXT	start yearINTEGER	end yearINTEGER	birth yearINTEGER	descriptionTEXT	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
A. Adomako	Minister for Food and Agriculture	—	1968	1969	1922	Ghanaian politician	Q16001285	Wikidata (CC0)
A. O. F. Tawiah	Member of the 1st Parliament of the 3rd Republic of Ghana	—	1979	1981	—	Ghanaian politician	Q107681021	Wikidata (CC0)
Aaron Mike Oquaye	Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana	New Patriotic Party	2017	2021	1944	Ghanaian politician, lawyer and academic	Q1933412	Wikidata (CC0)
Aaron Mike Oquaye	Minister for Communications	New Patriotic Party	2006	2007	1944	Ghanaian politician, lawyer and academic	Q1933412	Wikidata (CC0)
Aaron Mike Oquaye	Member of the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana	New Patriotic Party	2005	2009	1944	Ghanaian politician, lawyer and academic	Q1933412	Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL	officeTEXT	partyTEXT	start yearINTEGER	end yearINTEGER	birth yearINTEGER	descriptionTEXT	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
example-name-1	example-office-1	example-party-1	10	10	10	example-description-1	10	example-source-1
example-name-2	example-office-2	example-party-2	20	20	20	example-description-2	20	example-source-2
example-name-3	example-office-3	example-party-3	30	30	30	example-description-3	30	example-source-3
example-name-4	example-office-4	example-party-4	40	40	40	example-description-4	40	example-source-4
example-name-5	example-office-5	example-party-5	50	50	50	example-description-5	50	example-source-5
example-name-6	example-office-6	example-party-6	60	60	60	example-description-6	60	example-source-6
example-name-7	example-office-7	example-party-7	70	70	70	example-description-7	70	example-source-7
example-name-8	example-office-8	example-party-8	80	80	80	example-description-8	80	example-source-8

2,915 more rows — see the plans

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Endpoint

GET connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders

Auth: X-API-Key header
Pagination: page · limit
Format: JSON
Version: 1.0
Last updated: Sep 18, 2026from the source
Covers: A snapshotas of Sep 18, 2026
Refreshed: monthly
Last checked: Oct 1, 2026looked right
Source: Wikidata

How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Public officeholders (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/public-officeholders

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]

Field

Type

name

TEXT NOT NULL

office

TEXT

party

TEXT

start_year

INTEGER

end_year

INTEGER

birth_year

INTEGER

description

TEXT

wikidata_id

TEXT

source

TEXT

nameTEXT NOT NULL

officeTEXT

partyTEXT

start yearINTEGER

end yearINTEGER

birth yearINTEGER

descriptionTEXT

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

A. Adomako

Minister for Food and Agriculture

—

1968

1969

1922

Ghanaian politician

Q16001285

Wikidata (CC0)

A. O. F. Tawiah

Member of the 1st Parliament of the 3rd Republic of Ghana

—

1979

1981

—

Ghanaian politician

Q107681021

Wikidata (CC0)

Aaron Mike Oquaye

Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana

New Patriotic Party

2017

2021

1944

Ghanaian politician, lawyer and academic

Q1933412

Wikidata (CC0)

Aaron Mike Oquaye

Minister for Communications

New Patriotic Party

2006

2007

1944

Ghanaian politician, lawyer and academic

Q1933412

Wikidata (CC0)

Aaron Mike Oquaye

Member of the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana

New Patriotic Party

2005

2009

1944

Ghanaian politician, lawyer and academic

Q1933412

Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL

officeTEXT

partyTEXT

start yearINTEGER

end yearINTEGER

birth yearINTEGER

descriptionTEXT

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

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example-name-7

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example-name-8

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How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Public officeholders (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/public-officeholders

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/public_officeholders",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]