Background
CHAPMAN, Daniel was born on July 5, 1909 in Keta. Son of William and Jane (née Atriki) Chapman.
teacher public servant and business executive
CHAPMAN, Daniel was born on July 5, 1909 in Keta. Son of William and Jane (née Atriki) Chapman.
Bremen Mission School (Keta), Aehimota College, University of Oxford, Columbia University and New York University.
Teacher Government Senior Boys’ School, Accra 1930, Aehimota College 1930-1933, 1937-1946. General Secretary All-Ewe Conference 1944-1946. Area Specialist, United Nations Secretary Department, of Trusteeship and Information from Non-Seif-Goveming Territories 1946-1954.
Minister and Cabinet, Gold Coast 1954-1957.
Head of Ghana Civil Service 1957. Ambassador to United States of America and Permanent
Representative 1957-1959. Chairman Mission of Industry African States to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile 1958.
First Vice-Chairman Governing Council United Nations Special Fund 1959.
Headmaster Aehimota School 1959-1963. Vice-chairman Commission, on Higher Education in Ghana 1960-1961. Fellow, Ghana Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
Director United Nations Division of Narcotic Drugs 1963-1966.
Executive Director Pioneer Tobacco Company Limited. (British-American Tobacco Group) 1967-1970, Director since 1970.
Director Standard Bank Ghana Limited. 1970-1975; Chairman Arts Council of Ghana 1968-1969.
Danforth Visiting Lecturer for Assembly of American Colleges 1969, 1970.
Chairman Council of University of Science and Technology, Kumasi 1972-1973. Director Ghana Film Industry Corporation 1979-1981, Ghana National Honours and Deputy Chairman Ghana Constituent Assembly 1978-1979.
Board of Manager of United Nations Institute School, New York 1950-1954, 1958-1959. Interim National Council of Higher Education and Research, Ghana 1961-1962. United Nations Middle East/North Africa Technology Assistance Mission on Narcotics Control 1963.
Political Committee of National Liberation Council 1967.
Board of Trustees, General Kotoka Trust Fund. National Advisory Committee 1973.
Married Jane Abam Quashie in 1941.
