Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj
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Yang Teramat Mulia Tunku Abdul Rahman تونكو عبدالرحمن DMN AC CH |
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| 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia | |
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In office 31 August 1957 – 22 September 1970 (Malaya until 13 September 1963) |
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| 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 | |
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In office 1 August 1955 – 31 August 1957 |
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| 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 | |
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In office 1970–1973 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Hassan Al-Touhami |
| 5th President of the Asian Football Confederation | |
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In office 1958 – 11 December 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Nam Cheong Chan |
| Succeeded by | Kambiz Atabay |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 February 1903 Alor Star, Kedah, Siam (now Malaysia) |
| Died | 6 December 1990 (aged 87) 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 Mariam (adopted) Sharifah Hanizah (adopted) Faridah (adopted) |
| Alma mater |
St Catharine's College, Cambridge Inner Temple |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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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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