Biography of Tunku Abdul Rahman

Tunku Abdul Rahman

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Rahman Putra Al Haj

Full name : Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj
Born : February 8, 1903, AlorSetar

Died : December 6, 1990, Kuala Lumpur
Father's name : Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim

Shah II
Mother's name : Che Manjalara
Spouse : Tun Sharifah Rodziah
Children : Tunku Ahmad Nerang , Tunku Faridah , Tunku
Khadijah , Tunku Mariam , Tunku Noor Hayati , Tunku
Mastura , Suleiman Abdul Rahman.

Life before Independence

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj, first prime minister of
independent Malaya (1957–63) and then of Malaysia
(1963–70), under whose leadership the newly formed
government was stabilized.

After studies in England (1920–31), Abdul Rahman
returned to Malaya to enter the Kedah civil service. In
1947 he returned to England, was called to the bar in
1949, and was appointed a deputy public prosecutor in

the Malayan Federal Legal Department, a post he
resigned in 1951 to begin a political career.

Independence Involvement

He became president of the United Malays National Organization
(UMNO) and effected the alliance of UMNO with the Malayan Chinese
Association (1951) and with the Malayan Indian Congress (1955). His

Alliance Party won an overwhelming majority in the election of
1955, and Abdul Rahman became chief minister and home minister of

Malaya.

The mission he led to London (January 1956) to negotiate for
independence secured immediate internal self-government and the

pledge of independence by August 1957. When Malaya became
independent, he became its first prime minister and foreign minister,
and he continued in that post when the federation of Malaysia was

formed in 1963.

Involvement in

Islam & Sport

President of PERKIM
First secretary-general of OIC
first president of Asian Football

Confederation (AFC)
President of Football Association of Malaysia
Vice-President of Kedah Football Association

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