Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren

Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren
Төгс-Очирын Намнансүрэн
Namnansüren's picture in Parliament House of Mongolia
1st Prime Minister of Mongolia
In office November 1912 – April 1919
Preceded by	Da Lam Tserenchimed (as de facto Prime Minister) Position established
Succeeded by	Gonchigjalzangiin Badamdorj
Personal details
Born	1878 Uyanga district, Övörkhangai Province, Qing Empire
Died	April 1919

Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren (Mongolian: Төгс-Очирын Намнансүрэн; Chinese: 那木囊蘇倫; Tibetan: རྣམ་སྣང་སྲུང་།; 1878 – April 1919), full title Sain Noyon Khan Namnansüren (Сайн ноён хан Намнансүрэн, Good noyon khan Namnansüren), was a powerful hereditary prince and prominent early 20th century Mongolian independence leader. He served as the first prime minister of Autonomous Mongolia in the government of the Bogd Khan from 1912 until 1915 when the office of prime minister was abolished. He was then appointed minister of the army.

Namnansüren, who allegedly could trace his heritage directly back to Genghis Khan, was born in 1878 in present-day Uyanga district of Övörkhangai Province. In 1896 he became prince, or "khan", of Sain Noyon Khan Province, one of the four Khalkh Mongol provinces established by the Manchurians during the Qing Dynasty. He married in 1900.

In 1911, Namnansüren persuaded Mongolia's religious leader Bogd Khan to call a congress of Mongolian princes and high-ranking lamas in Khüree to initiate independence from China. The Bogd Khan then dispatched him to Saint Petersburg in July 1911 as part of a delegation to seek Russian and West European support for Mongolian independence.