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Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj

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Tunku Abdul Rahman
تونكو عبدالرحمن

DMN AC CH
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1st Prime Minister of Malaysia
In office
31 August 1957 – 22 September 1970
(Malaya until 13 September 1963)
Monarch Abdul Rahman
Hishamuddin
Syed Putra
Ismail Nasiruddin
Abdul Halim
Deputy Abdul Razak
Succeeded by Abdul Razak
Preceded by Himself
as Chief Minister of Malaya
Chief Minister of Malaya
In office
1 August 1955 – 31 August 1957
Monarch Elizabeth II
High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Himself
as Prime Minister of Malaya
1st Secretary-General of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
In office
1970–1973
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Hassan Al-Touhami
5th President of the Asian Football Confederation
In office
1958 – 11 December 1977
Preceded by Nam Cheong Chan
Succeeded by Kambiz Atabay
Personal details
Born (1903-02-08)8 February 1903
Thailand Alor Star, Kedah, Siam (now Malaysia)
Died 6 December 1990(1990-12-06) (aged 87)
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Resting place Kedah Royal Mausoleum
Citizenship Malaysian
Political party United Malays National Organisation (1946–1988)
Spouse(s) Meriam Chong (1933–1935)
Violet Coulson (1935–1946)
Sharifah Rodziah (1939–1990)
Children

Tunku Khadijah
Tunku Ahmad Nerang
Tunku Noorhayati
Tengku Mastura

Sulaiman (adopted)
Mariam (adopted)
Sharifah Hanizah (adopted) Faridah (adopted)
Alma mater St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Inner Temple
Profession Lawyer
Religion Sunni Islam

Tunku Khadijah
Tunku Ahmad Nerang
Tunku Noorhayati
Tengku Mastura

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah II (Jawi: تونكوعبدالرحمن ڤوترا الهاج ابن المرحوم سلطان عبدالحميد حاليم شه ; DMN, AC, CH, 08 February 1903 – 6 December 1990) was a Malaysian politician who served as the first Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955 to 1957, before becoming Malaya's first Prime Minister after independence in 1957, remaining Prime Minister following the formation of Malaysia in 1963, when Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore joined the federation, until his retirement in 1970.

Commonly known simply as "Tunku" or "The Tunku" (a Malay royal title), Tunku Abdul Rahman is widely regarded, even by his critics, as Malaysia's founding father, the architect of Malayan independence and the formation of Malaysia. As such, he is often referred to as Bapa Kemerdekaan (Father of Independence) or Bapa Malaysia (Father of Malaysia).

Tunku Abdul Rahman was born on 8 February 1903, in Alor Setar, Kedah, the seventh son of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, the twenty-fifth ruler of the Kedah Sultanate. Tunku's mother was Che Manjalara, the fourth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid. At that time, cholera and malaria were very common all over Kedah and at least two of Tunku's brothers and his older sister died from cholera while Tunku himself suffered from intermittent attacks of malaria until he left for London in 1920.


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