Background
Emmanuel Charles Quist was a son of Review Carl Quist, a Basel Mission pastor in Accra.
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Emmanuel Quist
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He was educated at the Basel Mission School in Accra from 1889 to 1896, and then at the Theological Seminary and Training College at Akropong, Akwapim District. Briefly entering business with the Basel Trading Company, he entered the Middle Temple in England in 1910 and was called to the Bar in 1913. A judge at the Cape Coast from 1948 to 1949, he was the first African President of the Legislative Council from 1949 to 1951, speaker of the National Assembly of the Gold Coast from 1951 to 1957, and Speaker of the National Assembly of Ghana from 1957 to 1959.
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He became a Crown Counsellor and barrister in private practice in Accra, and a member of Accra Town Council. He was an extraordinary member of the Legislative Council in 1925, and a member of the Legislatve Council, representing the chiefs of the Eastern Province, from 1934 to 1948.
