Matthew Archer (born 6 June 1931) is a Ghanaian politician and was the member of parliament for the Wassa East constituency in the first Parliament of the Second Republic of Ghana. He represented the Progress Party.[1][2][3][4]
Archer was elected to the first Parliament of the Second Republic of Ghana in the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election.[4][5] He was elected to represent the Wassa East constituency. While in parliament he was a member of the Parliamentary Selection Committee.[5] He was on the same committee with Mr B. K. Adama -the Chairman of the committee; and other members of parliament namely; Mr. Kinsley Abeyie, Mr. Amua-Sekyi, Mr. E. T. O. Oyeh and Mr. K. A. Boaitey.[5]
1969 Elections
Archer was elected after polling 6,643 votes out of 8,614 total valid votes cast during the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election. He was elected over James Gyimah Amoo of the APRP, Jimah Moses Kofi of the NAL and Joseph Kwamena Sapmpson of the PAP.[6]
^ abcdGhana Parliamentary Register 1969-70. Accra: Office of the National Assembly, Accra. 1969. p. 167.
^Ghana Business Guide. Business Publications. 1969.
^Kranzdorf, Richard Bernard (1973). The Military and Police in the Gold Coast/Ghana Through February 1966: A Study of Limited Institutionalization. University of California, Los Angeles. pp. 418–424.
^ abParliamentary Debates: Official Report. Ghana Publishing Corporation. 1970. p. 453.
^ abcParliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 1. Accra: Accra: Office of the National Assembly, Accra. 1969. 1969. p. 19.
^The Legon Observer, Volume 4, Issues 18-26. Legon: Legon Society on National Affairs. 1969. p. 18.
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