Achimota School University of London Joseph Henry Mensah (31 October 1928 – 12 July 2018)[1][2] was a Ghanaian politician and economist.

[1] Mensah began working as an assistant inspector of taxes in 1953 while the Gold Coast was still under colonial rule.

[13] In 1969, he was elected to parliament and became first the minister of finance and economic planning and then the finance minister in the Busia government until 1972,[1][14][15] when he was replaced by the future head of state Ignatius Kutu Acheampong after a coup d’état by the Ghana Armed Forces.

[21][22] Mensah was re-elected as the MP for Sunyani East for the fourth parliament in the 2004 Ghanaian general election.

[27] He also served as Chairman of the Sunyani District Council in the Brong-Ahafo Region (1979–1981) and was the proprietor of Banka Farms.

[28] In December 1996, Mensah stood as a member of the New Patriotic Party for a parliamentary seat in Sunyani East, which he won.

[32] J. H. Mensah died on Thursday 12 July 2018 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra after a protracted illness, having suffered a stroke a year earlier.

[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] He was accorded a state funeral by the Government of Ghana on Friday 17 August 2018 at the Accra International Conference Centre and buried at the new Military Cemetery at Burma Camp.