[1] Hackman was born in Gomoa West in the Central Region of Ghana on 12 December 1955.
[1] He had his Basic Education here in Ghana and worked for about five years before leaving to Nigeria in 1979 where he left to Holland in 1981.
He qualified as a Chartered Builder and later read a Master of Science Degree in Construction Management at the South Bank University in London.
[2] Hackman was first elected into Parliament during the December 2004 Ghanaian General elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party representing the Gomoa West Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana with 23,663 votes out of the 37,440 valid votes cast representing 63.20%.
[3] He was defeated by the National Democratic Congress candidate Francis Kojo Arthur in the 2008 General Elections.