Elected as a member for Accra to the Legislative Assembly in the 1951 elections, Hutton-Mills became Minister for Commerce Industry and Mines, and then Minister of Health and Labour. In 1954 he was dropped from the Cabinet, and replaced by Imoru Egala.[3] Becoming a diplomat, Hutton-Mills was a Deputy Commissioner in London for several years before being appointed Ghana's Ambassador to Liberia.[2]
On his death at a London hospital in 1959, he was 63 years old.[2]
Hutton-Mills was a distant cousin of the late Ghanaian president John Atta Mills.
References
^Michael R. Doortmont, The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony, Brill, 2005, p. 266
^ abc"MR. T. HUTTON-MILLS", The Times, 12 May 1959.
^Daniel Miles McFarland, Historical Dictionary of Ghana, Scarecrow Press, 1995, p. 98.
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